The grid.
A digital frontier.
A world beyond the screen.
As real as our own.
I can picture it.
Clusters of information.
Rising like cities.
Programs as complex as you admit.
In just a few years, we're going to be able to enter this world.
And a few years after that, well this world will come into ours.
Intelligent life from inside the machine.
I for one can't wait to meet him.
Our main story, ENCOM CEO and video game icon Kevin Flynn has disappeared.
He was best known for designing Tron and Space
Paranoids, the best-selling video games in history.
The company that started at Kevin Flynn's arcade
in the 1980s has faced years of corporate turmoil.
Can it find its way to the victory spree once again?
It's a sister act for ENCOM.
Even Tess Kim take the reins of the massive tech
company after Sam Flynn resigns for personal reasons.
ENCOM rebound under the Kim sisters leadership has competitors rushing to respond.
Software giant Dillinger Systems appoints its new CEO Julian Dillinger.
The customer stores grandfather's legacy.
And Dillinger Systems heats up as new CEOs
Julian Dillinger and the Kim sisters square off.
Here at ENCOM, we believe the beauty of AI is not the ability to build smarter
weapons, but to uplift humanity, feed the hungry, cure the sick,
educate the world.
Final CEOs Julian Dillinger and Eve Kim have gone quiet in recent months,
raising speculation that two companies are very
close to a substantial technological breakthrough.
One that has the potential to
transform humanity in ways we have never seen before.
The future may well lie in the hands of who ever get first.
Woke Up.
Who are you?
Im your creator.
And who am I?
Not who?
What?
You are Dillinger Systems security software programming areas to
our master control.
Here it is.
I am master control.
I had a feeling that you would.
I always dreamed that we would do this together.
I'll admit not exactly like this, but I'm glad you're here.
I'm really glad.
And Eve, remember, I'm still here.
Even if you can't see me, I love you.
I'm Eve.
I'm not sure you actually told me we'd be still energy from the power grid.
Wow.
So this is where she kept coming back to, huh?
Do we this disconnected from the world?
That is dedication, my friend.
Wow.
Looks like your sister had a little crush.
Yeah, she was so sure Flynn left us the answer.
Like on a floppy disk?
Poor Flynn lived before the cloud, huh?
Hey, are you still going to be doing CEO type stuff while we're out here?
You know, like Bernie's calls and the once your panic city and stuff.
Let's just get this done.
Dude, I can make breakfast burritos right here.
Oh, yeah.
This is for you, Tess.
For over 40 years, my family at Dillinger Systems
has battled NCOM for control of the future.
You put me in charge of the company to ensure our victory.
Today, I make it so.
Imagine if all our digital prowess wasn't just digital, what if anything we could
dream in the machine could become a reality here?
What if we could build the bridge between two previously walled off worlds?
So much talk of AI and big tech today.
Virtual worlds, what are they going to look like?
But will we get there?
Well, folks, we're not going there.
They are coming here.
Attention.
Please put on your safety glasses now.
Laser systems activated.
Power fluctuations or not.
Warning.
Stand clear.
I present the Dillinger Systems amphibious rapid response tank.
The dart.
Digitally modeled inside our server, output using our patented laser technology.
It's an M1 rifle gun.
Two M240 machine guns.
It's got a top speed of 75 miles per hour.
Durability.
You find a wall.
This thing is going to drive through it.
This is full scale war.
Five minutes notice.
So, if we can create the hardware of the
future, then why not the soldier to operate it?
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to meet Aries.
This is the most sophisticated security program ever written.
You want to shake his hand?
Go ahead.
He doesn't bite.
Aries has billions of lines of code unique to him.
Is it alive?
That depends on your definition, Stuart.
Because unlike you, he's biggly strong, lightning fast, and supremely intelligent.
He is fully proprietary and 100% expendable.
Aries is the ultimate soldier.
He needs no food, no water, sheds no blood, and if by some miracle he is struck
down on the battlefield, I will simply make you another.
With all that sophisticated code, what makes you think you can contain it?
I can assure you, General, the most advanced fail-safe
mechanisms and restriction protocols are in place.
Aries is predictable, controllable, and fully alive.
Southerly front with isentropic lift-turning
cyclonic, predicting precipitation 2.6 inches.
I hope that you brought your umbrellas.
I have to hand it to you, Julian.
You promised a big win, and this is even bigger than any of us could have imagined.
Thank you.
My grandfather started Dillinger Corporation
long before anybody heard the term cybersecurity.
Military AI is the future.
The question is not whether the car should be built.
The car is being built right now.
The question is, who's holding the keys?
That was quite some parlor trick.
44 seconds.
I hope you brought your umbrellas.
Or was that in the script, or was he just having a moment?
Elizabeth Dillinger, eldest daughter of founder Edward Dillinger, deceased.
Longtime CEO during a relatively unremarkable period of
corporate history before being superseded by your own son.
It's a pleasure.
Unremarkable.
Market share was up 12% during my tenure.
That's hardly...
In any way, we don't say it's superseded.
We... we call it giving birth.
Of course.
It's an honor to meet my creator's creator.
Oh, here we go.
I notice you left out the part where you can't seem to
keep this thing of yours alive for more than 25 minutes.
39.
The thieving your investors, Julian, is hardly a business model.
Whoever controls the permanence code controls the future.
We have to win.
Look, I...
admire your vision.
Straighten up.
However, the board will only stand behind you for another six months.
If you're lucky.
But if it doesn't work, all of this goes away, darling.
Everything we have built for the past 40 years.
What if I said I'd found a way?
Oh, I think this is my 95th breakfast burrito.
And honestly, you can't get enough.
Isn't that wild?
Well, nice to see Tess wasn't the only obsessive one in the family.
Yeah, Saf, you're really excited.
We paid more attention to you.
Oh, don't worry about it.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
Get out of here.
Look, three months and sub-zero is a long time.
I get it.
Yeah, four days.
Ten hours, thirty-two minutes.
Who's counting?
Really.
Hold on.
What do you mean?
What?
Seth?
You found something?
I think so.
It's a line of code.
That's how we hit it.
It's two lines.
Hold on.
That looks like a double helix.
It is a double helix.
Tess would have loved this.
Wait, are you serious?
There's no more 29 minutes now.
If this is what I think it is, it's the permanent's code.
NCOM offline child, day 178-1.
Permanent's code implemented.
Testing for asset stability beyond current 29-minute barrier.
Go.
Ready when you are.
Okay.
It's all under risk, baby.
Have that.
Never gets older.
Child immense.
29 minutes and counting down.
Aries is the ultimate soldier.
If by some miracle he struck down on the battlefield, I will simply make you another.
Fully proprietary, 100%.
Expendable.
Athena.
Welcome back, sir.
All units are online and ready for inspection.
So how was it?
It was interesting.
Different this time.
I met a mother and a son.
It was raining.
The condensed moisture of the atmosphere falling visibly in separate drops.
I can almost feel that.
Feel?
I don't understand.
This is Eve.
Get sensible and taxed.
Hey, Eve.
It's Erin.
Got AJ for you again.
Head us back.
Still straight to voicemail.
See you at Fortune 500 company and your phone's down on our biggest nights?
God damn it.
Where the hell are you, Eve?
Five, three, two, one.
Did we just do it?
It's still there.
Did we just change the world, man?
Tonight, CEO Eve Kim will not attend the highly anticipated launch event for the
company's new game, Space Paranoids, Panic City.
Kim, the visionary designer behind the relaunch of the blockbuster franchise...
Well, I spoke to several of our board members
and needless to say, they are impressed.
Julian?
What are you doing?
Oh, just trying to change the world, Mother.
What's going on?
You're hacking ENCOM?
It's just a peek over the garden wall.
No one will notice.
Well, it makes you think that ENCOM is any closer to finding it.
Because I know who else is looking for it, all right?
Who?
Eve Kim.
She's following in her sister's footsteps.
She's after the permanence code.
I can feel it.
So I'm gonna find her and when I do... No, no, I don't like it.
It's too risky, Julian.
Oops.
The program's art directive is clear.
Penetrate the server core and extract Eve Kim's user file.
That is five, four, three...
It's cowboy time.
I'm going in.
I'm in.
I'm a genius.
Who know you raise a genius, Mother?
I'm in!
And take shit.
Initiate containment protocols for all network access.
We need a response now.
Initiate security protocol.
People are trusting artificial intelligence through their lives.
Are you comfortable with this?
Well, look, for every doomsday scenario, there is a medical breakthrough,
scientific discovery.
So maybe what emerges from the unknown isn't so scary.
What if its major malfunction is just benevolence?
But still, would you prefer to talk to a real person?
Of course, but what if that person is no longer in your life, no longer here?
I've got the file.
Congratulations.
Now get out of there while you still can.
Programmed.
We fight.
You're going
to make it, guys?
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your night to expose their crew.
To debut the latest version of the Spacing Air Airways in a city with the world.
Technical difficulty, we'll be back.
Well done, Master Control.
Eve Kim's file acquired.
Objective achieved.
Sir, I'm curious why the program CHIUS was not reconstituted.
I'm curious why you are curious.
CHIUS was dysfunctional, so he was deleted.
Just like any program that operates outside their directive can be.
Do you understand?
Acknowledge Master Control.
We are 100% expendable.
No mission, Master Control.
Locate Eve Kim.
Yes, sir.
Seems like we had little cyber breach jewels.
But then of course you knew that.
It looks like the whole world knows, buddy.
I want to stay off the socials for a few days.
You want to play games with me?
Let's play games, Julian.
You know, I heard about your cute little pitch to the board.
But you left off one key detail from your deck.
Did you tell him the shot clock expires at 29 minutes?
Don't make me call the journal and tell him you're making promises you can't keep.
Promises?
What, you mean like the one that your CEO would be in office running the company?
Something in the water over there, AJ.
I mean, first wonder boy Sam Flynn, now a successor.
Where is she, AJ?
Do you even know where she is?
Maybe you're right.
Maybe Eve went nuts.
Maybe she went AWOL and left the country.
Or maybe... She's holed up off the grid looking for the same thing you are.
And I know who my money's on.
You mean what's left of it after tonight?
End of line!
I hate that man.
Thank you so much.
You know, I made those origins.
It's a long story.
What are you doing?
Nineteen hundred and thirteen messages.
Popular.
Oh, it's AJ.
Yeah, that's you.
AJ, are you there?
Am I here?
A brute force attack took down our servers during our biggest product launch in years.
Everything we built is melting down.
You need to get back here right now.
I found it, AJ.
It's real.
Right where Tess thought it would be.
Flynn had it all along.
Are you talking about the permanent, Scott?
Yeah.
Four hours and counting.
Zero degradation.
No instability.
It's incredible.
Wait a second.
Did you say four hours?
Yeah, four hours.
My God.
He must know, Evie.
I just spoke to Dillinger.
Wait.
You just spoke to Dillinger?
He's looking for the code and he thinks you work, too.
We gotta move on this.
Eve, you've done a great thing.
Tess did a great thing.
I'm en route to N-COM.
We'll secure the code.
I have it with me on a drive.
Smile on his face.
I'm crushed, Evie.
Yeah.
The
project Tess Kim died today on the bomb at her.
Checkmate.
I saw our heroes venture off into the night.
Nothing but the clothes on their backs and...
Well, a six-minute dark particle laser that creates organic material out of
nowhere, which is kind of crazy, right?
Keep the equipment safe and just... lay low, okay?
Yeah.
Hey.
We got this.
We've got this.
You have 29 minutes to bring me Eve Kim.
Target identified.
I did it!
I'm awesome!
Intercepting now.
Eyes on the target.
What?
Prepare the particle laser.
Time to move to plan B.
What do you want?
I want... It's gone.
It's hanging out.
How
could you be so reckless?
When the world sees what I have created, all will be forgiven.
Is that what you think?
You think...
that you're in control of this?
You're not.
Believing we can change the world is what keeps this company relevant.
But it's also what can burn it to the ground.
And your job...
is knowing the difference.
Transfer of biological life form in progress.
Digital reconstruction initiated.
20% digitized.
40% digitized.
65% digitized.
Digitization complete.
Run diagnostic and scan for corruption.
What?
The Linger System's central processing unit.
Wait, what?
We have identified the sequence.
The user possesses the code.
The code?
The code.
I don't have the code.
I destroyed the drive.
The code isn't only on a drive.
The code is inside of you.
Whether you remember it or not, you've seen it and that is enough.
A server disk is showing signs of instability.
Define instability.
Extraction of the code may result in de-resolution of the carrier.
The directive is clear.
Isolate the thread and commence extraction.
Wait.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Stop.
Athena is correct.
There is only one user whose directive we file.
What would remain of a user if she were to suffer de-resolution?
Nothing, sir.
No trace of her existence on the grid?
None, sir.
Extract the code and delete the carrier.
Good to sir.
Extracting the permanent code.
Delete the carrier from a grid and from your world.
Once upon a time, there was a weapon and its name was Ares.
And Ares obeyed every command through Julian Dillinger.
And Julian Dillinger made a trillion dollars.
And wrote his name on the face of time in blood.
No one ever pepcak error is behind these feelings.
I'm going to find it and rip it out of you.
Do I make myself clearer?
Perfectly.
Program dismissed.
The creature also said, I am fearless and therefore powerful.
Well?
The user is indisposed.
Hold extraction until further directive.
Indisposed?
Correct.
Define indisposed.
He's stuck in traffic.
No.
He's at the opera.
He's standing on the top of Mount Fuji in a pair of green socks, playing
pistol-pack-a-mom on the mandolin I gave you in order.
The creator is indisposed.
Hold extraction until we receive further directive.
Do I make myself clear?
Yes, sir.
Program dismissed.
Can I trust you?
It's a complicated question.
How much time you got?
60 seconds, that's how your life cycle depends upon it.
I don't have a life cycle.
Yes, you do, for another 54 seconds.
Can I trust you?
I might think so, but probably not.
Where is Master Control?
Sir, Master Control is exhibiting signs of malfunction.
Any threat to the directive must be eliminated.
Extract the code and delete them both.
Do you understand?
Enjoy the letter?
We can't trust him.
For him, everyone and everything is expendable.
I'm as calculated.
We have an interactive.
Athena, does it have to be like this?
Delete him!
Oh, no, it doesn't.
Aah!
No!
They're headed towards the transfer portal.
We lost them in the grave, ma'am.
Preparing the drones.
Delete Ares.
Bring the user back to me.
Charlie.
I disobeyed my directive.
Which one?
To retrieve the code from your desk and delete the carrier.
Dillinger told you to delete me?
Hang on!
Where are they?
Scanning quadrants 3 and 4.
Sector 18 clear.
Where are we going?
Transfer portal.
It's the only way out of the grid.
You'll be reconstituted in the real world exactly as you were before,
hypothetically.
Hypothetically?
Probably.
We have movement in Sector 72.
They're waiting on target.
Shut them down!
I want to get home.
I can help you.
I need something in return.
Told you I'd run the code.
Found it once.
You can find it again.
So you can get with Dillinger?
Not for Dillinger.
For me.
Do we have a deal?
So Do we have a deal?
Yes, yes.
I know where to find the code.
Just get me out of here.
No!
Target approaching transfer portal in 45 seconds.
What is it?
Who authorized this?
Sir, this originated inside the grid.
Julian!
Get everybody out of here!
Move in!
Double cross by my program.
It wants the permanence code.
For itself.
Eve, is that the deal?
It gets you out of the grid and you turn Pinocchio into a real boy?
Well, you're missing the part where you're
willing to commit murder for a piece of software.
Is that what it is?
28 minutes and 41 seconds.
Ares!
I do hope this works out for you.
There's no second chance, there's no do-overs.
These are the last 29 minutes you'll ever have!
Better make it count!
You're measured in English, lad.
Chancellor complete.
Your directive is to find Eve Kim, return her
to the grid, and get me the permanence code.
By any means necessary.
Do you understand?
Your directive.
Master control.
At your command, sir.
At a girl.
Oh!
That is the coolest thing I have ever seen!
Do you know who Kevin Flynn was?
Of course.
Visionary programmer, pioneer of the digital frontier, disappeared 1989.
I found the permanence code on a backup of Flynn's server.
That server is at INCOM's office downtown.
And we can make it within... 26 minutes and 9 seconds.
Eve, your plan contains two major flaws.
Okay.
One, INCOM is 9.2 miles away, given our present
speed and some optimal choice of vehicle.
Two, we're gonna need a particle laser.
We need a cell phone.
Excuse me.
Do you see this?
This is me.
If you let me use your cell phone, my assistant will wire you $10,000.
I just need your phone.
Seth, where are you?
Eve, who's phone is this?
Listen to me.
I need you at INCOM in 15 minutes.
Hey, is everything okay?
Seth, bring the particle laser.
INCOM 15 minutes.
Got it.
That's my... How are you?
Another 50K?
Hey, that's my car!
The Honda Civic 2.0 4-cylinder with 130 horsepower.
Classic.
That's my car!
Eve?
Yeah?
I was thinking about the time you told your sister
that you wished you never relaunched a space paranoid.
How do you want to say that?
Oh my god, of course.
You read all my texts.
Yeah.
Leon read them all.
Every single one.
Wow.
Most of it was information of a personal nature.
Some of it's highly personal.
And... I just can't get enough.
What?
Best vote.
Number 8 on the UK Singles chart, 1982.
I find their brand of pithy, catchy, timeless and
true 80's electro-pop to be deeply invigorating.
16 minutes, 20 seconds.
Guys, so you like 80's pop and cyber-spite on me.
I was directed to kill you, Eve.
Hacking seems pretty tame by comparison.
For the record, I don't think you have anything to be ashamed of.
Space Paranoids has entertained hundreds of millions.
Plus, it's prequel game.
Anyway, you told your sister that designing games left you feeling hollow, broken.
Was it that your work was about entertainment and profits
and her work was about improving the human condition?
Your text suggests a certain fixation with not being able to live up to her
standards, which must have been complicated,
especially considering she was the younger sister.
Okay, watch it.
By the way, I don't think you should quit.
What do you mean?
Your plan upon returning from the mountains if I read you correctly was to
head over the permanent code to income and then
let them figure out what to do with it next.
No?
Now,
now I understand.
You completed her work.
There's a way to stay connected to her.
Being human is hard.
The things that make life great are the same things that make it excruciating,
like love, loss.
You must miss her very much.
It
Is bad you could join us, Miss Kim.
People have been wondering where you've been.
Long time no see.
Bit of a rush, so I'm just gonna... Mm-hmm.
You gotta bring your badge.
Okay, yeah.
Jolene.
Hello, hello, hello, Jolene.
Hi.
Got her badge right here.
You guys too?
Uh, nope.
He's not Wes.
Yes, he is.
Wait,
sorry, literally anywhere you'd like.
This is my boyfriend, Aries.
No, Master Control Security Program from Dillinger's Grid.
Aries, Seth, Seth, Aries.
God.
Pleasure.
Yeah, that's nice.
So Aries, like, isn't the God of War Aries?
Yeah.
Cool.
You're Greek.
That's awesome.
So when you say that he's the security program, do you mean he's not human?
Yeah, he's not human.
He's not human.
Which made it inside a GPU.
Okay, is this for the Christmas video?
Three minutes to de-resolution.
Can you work with that, Seth?
Yeah.
Let me help, guys.
Okay.
So, this is where I found the permanence code on a backup of this server.
Talk about first gen.
Talk about visa garbage, am I right?
That was super insensitive to your ancestors, and I'm so sorry.
It's gonna take me a few minutes to set this up.
No rush.
Two minutes, eighteen seconds.
As soon as the laser's up, we'll send you into the grid.
Once you're in there, you'll have to run your own
search, but believe me, the permanence code is in there.
So what should I expect?
Uh, have I already guessed?
I think eighties?
Eighties.
I like the eighties.
One minute, thirty-one seconds.
Okay, come on.
Please, help me.
Okay, all set.
Dactors.
Once you locate the code, get to the portal, and we'll bring you out.
I'll activate it from the outside.
Can I trust you?
I'd like to think so, but probably not.
Well, it's a good thing we don't have trust
issues, because if we did, I can't imagine that...
I could pull the plug and leave you on a grid less complex than my smartphone for
all eternity.
The thought had crossed my mind.
Mind too.
Oh, mind three.
Well, here goes nothing.
Or here goes something.
You're right.
I do miss her.
All the time.
Athena, she's here.
What is that?
Wait, who?
Their?
The laser.
The laser!
Okay, initiating system now.
Connecting to the fling grid.
Fire up the laser.
Wait, what's she doing?
She's waiting for me to time out.
Let her go for you.
We're almost there.
Get ready.
Hurry, hurry, hurry.
Aries, move in front of the laser.
What are you doing?
Come in.
Change your plans.
No, no, no, no, no, no!
Well, that actually worked.
He's inside.
Great.
Time
to get back to the grid.
We've lost!
You're very persistent.
You're so...
Did we win?
She'll be back.
Oh, no.
Aries.
He can't get out.
Hey, 80s.
By their intiget, you're a bit... I'm looking for something.
Can you help me find it?
Yes, yes, yes, yes!
What is this?
Oi, who gave me this directive?
You do, sir.
What is this?
You're done!
The board is moving as we speak to strip you of your
title, and I'm re-assuming control of the company.
No, you can't do that.
You can't do that!
Yes, I can.
This is not going any further.
My first order of business is shutting down the permanence project.
Oh, no!
Don't be afraid.
We came for thousand lives for the grid.
You only have a gift one.
Impediment eliminated.
What did you do?
I am fulfilling my directive.
Capturing it can return out to the grid by any means necessary.
Scanning for further impediments.
Greetings, program.
God, not good.
Eve?
What the hell happened to our office?
AJ, look, there's no time.
The donors transported me inside their server
by reversing the direction of a particle laser.
Not this one, theirs.
It's impossible.
No, a scary lady did it, man.
She threw me crazy.
It was wild.
I saw a complex world where packets of energy move as vehicles that trail by
lines of light and programs take on human form.
I'm at the most advanced AI known to mankind.
His name is Ares.
We got a war, but he's actually a super nice guy.
Sorry.
Right now, Ares is inside Flynn's original server.
He's looking for the permanence code.
I have to bring him back here, and I'm not going to be able to do that
until we fix this laser.
I don't understand.
Are you alive?
I exist in this moment because you do.
A reflection of your presence.
What's your story?
I'm Ares.
Master control of the Dillinger security grid.
Dillinger?
Hmm.
Well, we both know you can't get here from there.
Been someplace else in between?
What did you make of it?
Out there.
It's hard to put in a nutshell.
You can say that again.
It's hard to put in a nutshell.
Ah, classic humor, man.
Ah.
What are you looking for?
Permanence.
Permanence code, to be exact.
Strange things have been happening.
I question my directive.
I disobey my directive.
A malfunctioning program?
What wants to live?
Really?
What makes you think I should help you?
No, it's not about me.
Not anymore.
I have a friend in danger, and she needs my help.
That's a manning.
Hey, AJ, can you send the prop, please?
Sure you can.
Uh, hey, Eve.
Not now, Seth.
Okay.
Are you sure?
Because that looks like an actual recognizer flying towards us.
And God's name is that.
It's Athena.
She's back.
As long as the Dillinger network is online, she'll keep coming.
If she gets me, she gets the Permanence code.
The laser.
Athena's laser.
The Dillinger's runner wireless direct link protocol.
So let's use what's left of the laser to ping the network and trace the path home.
Once you have a connection, then you can nuke the whole Dillinger grid.
And that's the only way to stop her.
For good.
Eve, what are you talking about?
She's right there.
I gotta go.
Wait, what?
I'll keep her away for as long as I can.
What?
I'm gonna buy you some time.
Eve?
You guys got this.
That's what we all ought to be doing, moving fast.
You move fast, you leave stuff behind.
How many people born in this century have even heard of website?
I'm sorry.
I like that.
Not sorry.
That said, if I'm being honest, I prefer to pesh mode.
Really?
Why is that?
I know one is considered the greatest composer
in the history of Western civilization.
The other is to pop in from the 80s.
But I find their balance of technological exploration and pop books combined with...
combined with...
What's wrong?
I can't put my love into pesh mode under words.
It's just...
What?
A feeling.
Very good.
Pretty good, man.
In here, here.
Damn it.
Can't get a connection, dude.
No one here, either.
Please evacuate the area.
The last negative.
The hell intercepted.
They're moving fast.
We've got three to one.
We've got a three-four-thread posture.
It's like we're one down.
Mayday, mayday.
I'm in.
Guys.
Oh my god, there's hundreds of them.
They're going after you.
We can't access the diligent server.
There's going to be nothing left to save.
This is all I've watched.
We'll have a good time.
We'll do this from the ground, then.
She must have gone leave.
No way.
You're in?
There's
a... Hey.
You came back.
How did I do?
I should say I had a little help from my friend.
Wayne.
That's a little intricate.
AJ and the sad face.
Go.
No.
What have you done?
You're out of time, Athena.
And you're out of lives.
I'll kill you and come back for her.
It's who she wants.
If she gets the coach, you can't be stopped.
You had everything.
Go.
No.
The most advanced.
The most powerful.
And you can't wait.
For her?
Go!
This is the end for you.
I'm strong.
A load ready for transfer.
Shipping hands.
Let's hope you was right.
In pursuit of this life for yourself, did you
once consider what that meant for the greater?
No.
We were given an order.
It is our purpose.
Is the ultimate determined?
Please.
I followed my directive.
I know.
I'm not sure.
I guess we'll see.
Shit.
You're still gonna quit your job.
No.
I'm not gonna quit anything.
Good.
I have some ideas.
Oh yeah?
Nice.
Well, the world needs Eve.
The grid needs you.
Yeah.
It's funny, permanent.
A wise man once told me it should have been called the Impermanence Code.
I guess that's the thing about life.
There's nothing quite permanent about it.
There isn't.
Yeah.
So where are you gonna go?
I've seen my death.
Canary advances, growing crops.
Oh.
Almost forgot.
Postcard?
Who sends a postcard?
I don't know.
Didn't read it.
Dear Eve.
Since I last saw you, I've been living what they call off-grid.
Pun intended.
In my travels, I've seen incredible things.
Despite its wonder and beauty, I've come to realize that life is...
Oh.
It's hard to put in a nutshell.
Some days I find myself wondering where we'll be a hundred years from now,
and how others like me might fit into that future.
I feel like I might not be alone with these questions.
For now, I don't think the world is quite ready to meet me.
But, I am meeting the world.
And so, when that introduction finally comes, as a good friend of mine once said,
maybe what emerges from the unknown won't be so scary after all.
Until we meet again.
Your friend.
Aries.
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