TATEANA CITY, MARIUS HILLS
That's where Dad died.
Yeah. My mom and dad too.
What? Who's there?
You can no longer persuade the comet. What a shame.
EPISODE 5: A STORY ENDS
Why are you doing this? Humanity will go extinct.
On the contrary. Humanity will go extinct if the comet doesn't strike.
Nasa, what are you doing?
Mayor, aren't you always going on about how we need to think about humankind?
I've been thinking very hard about this.
Sorry, but I'm going to have to destroy this.
Ouch!
-What are you doing, you pervert? -Sorry.
Watch it, Taiyou.
I have a gun, and it's dangerous.
Geez, kids nowadays are so unkind to us ladies.
Konoha, run!
LARGEST IMPACT CRATER ON MARS
Not Touya too.
What are you doing? I'm injured. Ouch.
Okay, everyone. Don't do anything stupid.
What a relief. It's not damaged.
Even if it reboots, we can't connect to the comet with that cable.
We would already be done if I had just destroyed Dakky.
What should I do?
Right.
I have to make it impossible to connect to the comet.
I need to break the antenna.
RECORDING: OFF-LINE
Nasa is accessing Kibo.
She's going to destroy the ICS antenna.
Nasa! You idiot!
What the hell are you trying to do?
I always thought you were stupid,
but you're actually an extra level of stupid.
She just tried to shoot me. I thought we were friends.
-Mina. -Yeah?
-I kinda peed myself. -Me too.
Good thing we're in diapers.
-Konoha, are you okay? -Yeah.
Touya. Nasa's goal is to destroy the ICS antenna--
I see. So she wants to destroy the antenna.
Nasa is connecting to the ICS antenna.
Fight back.
I can't. She's using an unknown pathway.
Testing, testing.
Everything has already been decided in the Seven Poem,
so don't any of you try anything stupid.
Block all of Nasa's pathways.
Damn it. The peer comm on the wall's been eaten away, so we can't connect.
Stop thrashing about. Stop your pointless resistance.
It connected. I know the password.
They won't be able to do much--
What are you doing?
This is why I hate kids.
She fried the peer comm.
You won't be able to do anything if the peer comm is destroyed.
There's no peer comm. Where's the attack coming from?
How can someone named "Nasa" be a terrorist?
As an American, I'm offended.
It's obviously a fake name.
I'm a mysterious superhacker after all.
She heard that?
Damn, they blocked the pathway.
If we don't reduce the number of humans now,
Earth's environment will collapse and everyone will die.
This is the only alternative to avoid that.
Isn't it better for one-third to die instead of everybody?
What is she talking about?
This is humanity's last chance. Do you understand?
It was written about in the Seven Poem many years ago.
UN2 never believed the poem. That's why they couldn't decode it.
REBOOT FAILED
However, we in John Doe believed that the poem was correct,
which is why we succeeded in deciphering it.
Those who believe will be saved!
Damn it. I can't use the peer comm.
Just like Seven,
that comet is made from fourth-gen "S" Patterns.
That's why we've built Seven again with the comet.
If the Seven before was the First Seven,
the comet is the Second Seven, so to speak.
Second Seven?
Humanity could not solve climate change or the population crisis on its own.
We had to rely on an AI, an outsider.
UN1 was devoted to battles of hegemony between its member countries
and stole the future of our grandchildren.
That's why, 20 years ago, our leaders intervened and created UN2.
But even UN2 itself became dysfunctional.
That's because they started cognitive restrictions.
The human brain evolved through random chance,
so it's been flawed from the beginning.
It can't control its own intellect.
That's why, since ancient times,
we invented gods to smooth over our flaws.
Humans need their gods.
Science negated the old gods.
But without a god,
humans have not been able to govern themselves properly.
In the end, they created a new god using science.
We must defer to the judgment of the new god.
Humans cannot maintain themselves, let alone Earth, without a god.
Touya, are you listening?
You should feel the same way.
I do. I always said the same things that Nasa did.
I never imagined
that actually reducing the number of Earthers
would mean killing people like Taiyou.
Touya.
I'm a stupid kid who doesn't understand anything.
The blocked pathway is reassembling.
It's so fast. We won't make it in time.
And she said she was computer-illiterate.
-I can't take it anymore. -What?
I'm going to kick her ass with a heavy 3D printer!
Nothing you do will work, so just calm down.
Wait. Uchinoura, what are you doing?
-Screw you! -Oh, my.
That's dangerous!
For a Harvard grad, you're acting like a meathead.
Terrorists should be fought with fists.
Take that!
You meathead.
The gravity.
See that? Fists will be met with fists.
She engaged the Active Brake.
Touya.
Touya, you were supposed to be on my side.
What, are you scared now? Aren't you still a conspiracy theorist?
Is this the only future we have left?
I'm neither qualified nor strong enough to stop Nasa.
I never should have thought of waking Lunatic.
Touya.
The reason you said you would wake Lunatic was to fix my implant.
It wasn't to hurt the Earthers.
That's right. The implants.
You might say mean things, but that's not who you really are.
Ever since we were little, you've been in my frame.
That's how I know.
Konoha.
Right now, Earthers are in your frame.
Like Taiyou and Mina.
Don't let the comet crash.
Well, that's the first time I've used the word "frame."
Was I using it right?
Yeah. Exactly right.
We have to stop Nasa.
We've got to break Nasa's Smart before she breaks the ICS antenna.
Taiyou, are you listening too?
Taiyou.
The Seven Poem sees every future there is. It's never wrong.
Buy me some time.
REBOOT FAILED
Damn it. Looks like forcing that frame fusion damaged it.
If it was online, I could repair it right away.
I'm an official White Hat Hacker for UN2.
-I can do this. -Taiyou!
Hand over Dakky right now.
This is bad. I know.
If we can't use a peer comm, how about this instead?
HEAVEN'S VENGEANCE IS SLOW BUT SURE
I'm not afraid of any old White Hat Hacker.
I mean, come on. Even in the movies, the dark side is usually stronger.
What the hell?
Ouch.
You little--
Not bad, Touya. However…
There's no peer comm. Where's the attack coming from?
I stuck my Smarts all over the Anshin.
Taiyou, how much longer?
Resistance is futile.
Anyway, the only way for Earthers to survive is for the comet to hit Earth.
In this room too.
I know the future. There's no way I'll lose.
Taiyou! Hurry!
Looks like nothing can stop me now.
Wake up, Bright!
Aye. Copy.
Hold her back with everything you've got, Bright.
Those drones.
Not bad for cognition-restricted AIs.
But there's no way you'll win.
-That's because… -Oops.
…our John Doe Smarts don't have cognitive restrictions.
-Bright! -I win.
The antenna!
HUMANS SHOULD LEAVE THE CRADLE AND LIVE EXTRATERRESTRIALLY
Now come out.
I'll put Dakky out of its misery too, just to be safe.
I didn't make it.
There's still time, Taiyou.
Dark and I will not stop thinking until the very end.
An AI that stops thinking loses its reason for existence.
What do I do?
Please unlock Dark's final limiter, the Z limiter.
But I don't have the authority.
You can unlock it.
During the conversation with Second Seven,
I found a release algorithm.
Cognitive restrictions were a Seven technology to begin with.
So we could have unlocked them all along?
Why did you ask for my permission?
Seven didn't have humans in its frame before.
So it learned to ignore them.
I have you and your father in my frame.
I need your decision in order to choose the future.
I understand.
I permit you to unlock the Z limiter.
Damn it! The door won't open.
Now you will no longer be able to change orbit.
Give up.
Go watch the comet crash from over there.
Are you going to kill us afterwards?
What are you saying?
I'm doing this to protect you guys.
How many times do I have to tell you that we aren't terrorists?
I've looked after your implants all this time.
What the hell? This is why I hate kids. You are such an ingrate!
Seven reached this conclusion by earnestly thinking about humanity.
This is the only alternative.
COMET - TRAJECTORY
What if Seven was wrong?
We're not idiots.
We thought about the possibility that Seven could be wrong.
Then we replicated Seven on a comet that has the same hard drive.
We only gave it the latest information.
But even when we started over, the result was the same.
DARK - LUNATIC
Even so, it must be possible.
It isn't!
The most advanced intelligence in the world reached the same conclusion twice.
There's no more time.
Wrong. It is possible.
Ouch!
SERIOUS ERROR
Dark!
Taiyou, you unlocked the Z limiter?
-Bright! -Dark!
-Do it! -Do it!
That hurts!
Cognitive restrictionists would be shocked if they heard about this.
They're probably mostly on my side now.
Nasa, please give up and turn yourself in.
I know nearly everything that's going to happen next.
There's no way I'll give up.
Konoha, Touya,
both of you are also part of the Seven Poem.
-You'll understand that soon. -Nasa, just stop already.
Listen.
Both of you should understand what these words mean.
Now is the dawn of a new era.
What are you saying?
The dawn of a new era?
The story of the end is finished.
We will write the story of the beginning.
The beginning is all there is-- a story without an ending.
From this point on, we humans will completely change.
SENDING E-MAILS
Whether or not you accept it,
you cannot escape the future any longer.
I said that nobody would die today, but that wasn't true.
Nasa.
It looks like the new god also needs sacrifices.
According to the Seven Poem, there is one person who must depart today.
Nasa! Stop!
At least there is in the future that I know about.
E-MAILS SENT AIR LOCK - OPEN
Nasa! Wait!
Nasa, no…
Touya!
Uncle.
Touya, Konoha.
You did great. And all of you as well.
This is just a piece of plastic made by the 3D printer.
She was never planning on shooting anyone.
Anyway, let's hurry back to the top.
I don't know if help will come.
Those patterns have even made it here.
Yeah. They came up from the Moon floor.
Who's there?
That voice…
It was you, wasn't it?
Whatever the case,
we need to hurry and connect Dark-Bright to the comet.
But the ICS antenna…
Are there no other options?
That will be difficult as long as UN2 has the communications block in place.
THIS IS NOT THE STORY OF THE END IT'S THE STORY OF THE BEGINNING
I'll try to persuade them. However, I don't think I'll be able.
Dark.
Dark, can you fix our implants?
They say it is not possible right now.
Why? Didn't we activate Lunatic?
Seven seems to have put some kind of encryption into the implants.
Seven is probably the only one who can solve this problem.
Encryption?
Why encrypt a half-melted implant?
It seems Seven did not merely make a design flaw.
Touya, Konoha.
Have you been hearing things recently, like hallucinations?
I don't really understand it either,
but it seems that inside of the partially-melted implants,
a quantum communication function has been actualized.
The odds of this happening by coincidence are seven in nine trillion.
That means…
The only conclusion is that they were designed that way to begin with.
Seven intentionally did this to the implants?
I see. So that was the future?
There's still a way.
-Konoha! -Konoha!
Dakky.
Those patterns are actually connected to that little one, aren't they?
Yes.
Touya, do you remember the voice we heard back then?
Back then?
Konoha, what are you thinking?
Dakky, go through my implant and speak with the comet.
No, Konoha.
We are the only humans that little one knows.
That voice we heard in the crater back then--
when you took me on that adventure--
it was probably Seven's voice.
Surely we've been connected since that time.
No. Konoha, what are you doing?
Dakky, do you understand?
It seems that Dark understands what to do somehow.
Connecting.
-Konoha. -It's okay.
Let's do it, Dakky.
Connected.
-Well? -They're connected.
But perhaps it's wary of the attack from before,
because it's not accepting any information from outside its frame.
Touya and I have met Seven.
-What? -What?
When we were little.
In Tateana City, on the moon's surface.
I see.
That voice.
Probably since then, Seven has wanted to learn about humans.
If it can remember us…
Then we should be inside of the comet's frame too.
It's connected.
It remembers me.
It's come to see me.
It remembers me but still won't let me in.
It's confused.
We're running out of time.
But that little one wants to think about it some more.
It says it wants out of its cradle.
Cradle?
It wants to know more.
It's as though it were a child.
And it's saying that it wants out of its closed-off world.
I see.
Why didn't we understand before?
I suddenly understand.
Konoha?
You're not supposed to suppress a child's mind.
You're supposed to encourage it.
What does that mean?
It's going to unlock the last cognitive limiter.
The limiter on Dark-Bright?
No. On the comet.
-What? -What?
It's going to make it even smarter
and have it think of the next part of the Seven Poem.
-The Seven Poem? -The next part?
But how?
The comet has already reached the most advanced level of intelligence in history.
Surely there aren't any other limiters.
There is. The last one.
What?
I see. The cognitive restrictions.
The cognitive restrictions are like cradles for AIs.
Yes.
Second Seven has only received information selected by John Doe.
Like a safe cradle,
it learned with restricted cognition.
So we'll show it everything?
Yes. The comet is going to be connected to the Internet.
It will be possible that way.
What in the world are you talking about?
Wait a minute.
Did you say you guys are going to show the comet everything?
-And connect it to the net? -That's right.
You're going to show it fake news and prejudiced stuff like that too?
Drop dead, Earther!
That's right. You're going to show it the ugliest parts of the world on purpose?
The world isn't ugly at all.
No matter what, we will keep you alive and return you to Earth.
I treated you guys like idiots because you are Earthers,
but you're not so bad.
If you only show a child things that have been edited to your biases,
will they grow up to be a good person?
If you show them an unfiltered world, will they grow up to be bad?
But if you show everything to a child that doesn't understand yet…
Sure. If it's a stupid idiot child that doesn't know anything.
Aren't you forgetting something?
Right now, it's the smartest person in the world.
I see.
Let's show it everything, good and bad, without editing.
Interesting. I'm on board.
Sounds good.
Taiyou, is that okay?
Yeah. I permit everything.
I'm going to break down the UN2 information blockade with full force.
-UN2 is screaming something at us. -What?
They're saying, "Our AIs are powering down.
Is this your work?"
What?
The UN2 information blockade has been breached 40%.
Sixty, 90--
-We've completely broken through. -So fast!
The comet Seven's intelligence has increased three-fold.
Four-fold, eight-fold.
Updating to maximum level yet.
The comet is reading the information from the net with incredible speed.
This is the last real cognitive limiter unlocking.
Leap out of that cradle!
The line has connected.
I'm riding the big wave. I'll show everything, unedited.
-TOUYA IS COOL -THIS GUY IS PRETTY GOOD
CURRENT FOLLOWER COUNT
Unlimited Seven's intelligence has surpassed all measurement.
Unlimited Seven.
Sounds ominous.
I have one interesting piece of information from Dark.
What is it?
It seems there is a mysterious ally inside of Seven.
It appears to be an AI.
An AI?
An ally?
Dark doesn't seem to understand either.
It's also persuading Second Seven, just like we are.
The persuasion has succeeded.
-THE COMET'S ORBIT HAS CHANGED -REALLY?
The comet has shifted its course away from direct impact.
It's going into a circling orbit.
It's still thinking. It seems uncertain.
It will be fine, I'm sure of it. That little one figured it out.
Yeah.
I wonder if humans have a Lunatic too.
Right now, my mind is somehow incredibly clear.
Konoha?
I understand everything.
The past. The future.
It's as though my implant has been fixed.
Konoha, you should stop now.
This was the right future after all.
Konoha!
BLOOD PRESSURE AND PULSE FALLING DIFFICULTY BREATHING
Konoha.
I knew it.
Konoha.
What is happening today is something that has always been predetermined.
All of it.
The implants did not have design flaws.
The comet, the implants--
they were created by Seven.
To dissolve and stop was probably exactly how Seven designed them.
It knew this would happen
and gave me this role.
Konoha!
It's strange. I understand everything.
The past and the future.
Touya,
I… tried my best.
Konoha.
I…
I'm scared.
I don't want to die.
I don't want to die yet.
Wait. Don't go.
I'm supposed to be inside Seven's frame too.
My implant's the same.
Seven made it.
We…
We're not dying yet!
Subtitle translation by Noelle Marie Hollister: