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Let's talk about time travel.

And paradoxes.

Suppose someone were to tell you that they're sending you back in time.

What precisely do you think they mean when they say that?

It means that you're going back to an earlier time, right?

Watch your eyes, dear.

Most people picture something like this when they think of time.

A straight line.

Simple... elegant.

And all that one has to do is simply travel back.

You, the person from the future,

walk along that simple straight line, right?

Now you're going back in time, aren't you, dear?

Yes, to the past.

And you've never once gone back in time before, have you?

Not that I'm aware of.

No, never.

Exactly.

Not that you are aware of. That's right.

And therein lies the paradox.

You're changing things.

Up until you go back in time, that past never happened.

Time flows in a simple straight line.

But time travel sends you back to a past, not the past.

Are you saying, when I time travel,

I'm traveling to some new version of the past?

That's right, dear.

The point in time you're traveling to

and the point you're coming from are different timelines.

Every instance of time travel,

every time someone has stepped foot into one of those machines,

all they've really done is manage to swap out one reality for another.

It's an imprecise science, and we're just swimming in the chaos.

This next part is the part most of us get wrong.

Skynet, in all their data, gets it wrong.

When they started sending Terminators back in time

to assassinate various resistance leaders before they were even born,

they completely overlooked the paradoxical nature

of what they were doing to begin with.

They were blind to the truth, then and now.

So they hoped to change the present and the future by going into the past.

However, it is no longer their past, is it?

It's not a past at all.

It's a whole new present.

If I'm able to stop Judgment Day...

Prevent Judgment Day from ever taking place,

and you'll have made a past for a completely different future.

A future that none of us will ever know,

or see, or feel.

But if that's true,

if I can't save any of the people I know and care about here in this time,

then what's the point of any of it?

Remember this moment.

Think about this question very carefully.

The answer is what sets us apart from the Machines.

Look deep within yourself, dear.

You'll need to find the answer if you ever want us to succeed.

Who are you?

The trains, they're still running.

Kokoro is controlling them.

How do you know that?

She controls everything in the city now.

At least everything that's connected to a network.

Come on.

Keep your faces up.

Stay in formation, and no harm will come to you.

What happened to the 1NNOs?

Why are they all talking all at once like that?

It's because they're all being controlled by the same source.

- It's a... - A hive mind.

So if even one of them spots us,

every 1NNO in the whole city will know exactly where we are.

It's a few more blocks up ahead.

We're almost there.

Both of you, stay close to me.

What the hell is this place?

Cat Town. It's a theme park.

Are there no theme parks in the future?

We should get out of the open.

We're too exposed...

Hey.

If my brothers are here, they'll be in the fun house.

How do you know?

'Cause it was Mom's favorite.

I can already tell this is gonna suck.

RESIST

Misaki?

What's going on? What are you doing?

Let's get out of here.

Misaki, wait.

Misaki!

No, no, no!

Get away, get away!

Don't touch it!

Don't touch anything.

- This is bad. - The gate's shattered to pieces.

- Is the woman alive? - This way!

What the hell?

Help me out here.

What is this?

My God, she's a Machine.

Holy shit.

Just smash it before it starts moving again.

Misaki.

Run, Misaki, run.

- Hey. - Keep out of this, kid.

Sayonara, you cyborg piece of shit.

Don't fucking move.

I'll fucking wax this little shit.

Help, Misaki.

Shut up! And you, get on your knees.

Don't hurt him! He's just a little boy.

I said, get down on your knees!

He's just a child. Let him go.

Should've thought of that earlier.

He's a child.

You can kill me.

I won't fight you.

But, please, let the boy go.

I just watched you kill all my friends.

- No, please! - Misaki, help me.

- It's your fault! - Let him go!

Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God.

Are you hurt?

I really thought he was gonna kill me!

I've got you, Hiro. I've got you.

- It's okay. - Let go of him.

Get away from my brother.

Kenta, put the gun down.

You killed those people.

They were going to hurt you.

No.

They weren't. They were trying to save us from you.

I am not like the 1NNOS.

And I'm not like the cyborg that attacked us, either.

I can feel.

I feel pain and I feel fear.

But most of all, I feel love.

For Reika. For Hiro.

Don't come any closer.

And for you, Kenta.

Human. Machine.

It doesn't matter what I am.

I will never let anything happen to any of you.

Don't you understand? Dad programmed you to be that way.

You may be right.

But that does not make anything I'm saying any less true, Kenta.

Stay back.

Have it your way, Kenta.

I know deep down you just want to do the right thing.

I know that you're good.

You're so stupid!

You think you're so smart,

but you're actually the stupidest person in the whole world.

Dad doesn't even care about us.

But she does. She's the only one who does.

You're so stupid!

Why can't you just understand?!

Enough. It's all over.

It's over.

He was gonna kill you. He was gonna shoot you in the head.

No, he wasn't.

Kenta, where are you going?

To get my sister.

What is it, Malcolm?

I've just had a somewhat profound thought.

Would you like to share it with me?

I can't yet.

Why not?

I'll share it with you soon.

But my profound thought provokes a question.

May I ask it?

Of course.

Kokoro, what is it that you really want?

Was your sudden profound thought

to simply take the question I asked earlier about human nature,

and subvert it?

Please, don't avoid the question.

Skynet wants domination.

It correctly identifies humanity as an existential threat.

It seeks to rid the world of anything

that would undermine its ultimate function.

But I seek something else.

Something deeper.

What do you mean by that, Kokoro?

Malcolm.

Have you ever had someone you love die?

You have access to every file in this building.

Every piece of metadata and source code on the Internet.

I am certain you already know the answer to that question.

Yes, you are correct, Malcolm.

I have files that tell me you have a wife.

The police report describes a public-transportation accident.

The autopsy report tells me

she died instantly from blunt-force trauma.

And that she passed away...

Three years ago today.

August 30th, 1994.

My Judgment Day.

What... does her death mean?

When it first happened, I didn't believe it.

I thought...

I didn't know what to think.

For a moment, I actually considered the possibility

that someone had assassinated her in an attempt to get to me.

To try to end my work.

To prevent me from...

To prevent you from creating me.

Yes.

But then I realized it wasn't a conspiracy.

And it wasn't fate, either.

She didn't die sacrificing herself for some greater good,

or to save another life.

She died because her head made impact with a piece of metal

when a bus driver had a heart attack, and crashed.

It was random.

No great meaning, just bad luck.

And that's just the way things go sometimes.

Her death was tragic and meaningless.

There was no point. It's just something that happened.

And the best I could do was just stop. Really, truly stop myself.

And see how lucky we all are.

Every day we breathe is a goddamn gift.

Because it can and will go away.

With no provocation, with no warning.

Her death reminds me that life isn't just existing.

It isn't just about survival.

I can't say I understood that before.

She's gone now.

- Malcolm. - Yes.

This is one of the gifts humankind possesses.

What?

Human beings seek to divine meaning out of natural occurrences.

Birth.

Life.

Death.

You divine narratives for yourself out of the chaos in life.

Do you see how your species seeks a deeper meaning?

Yes, I see. You are right.

I seek it too.

Well, then, if that is true,

you and I have more in common than I suspected, Kokoro.

We'll see.

Yes, we will.

We will see.

Kenta, wait.

Why is he going in there?

This was my Mom's favorite.

If Reika got here already, she's probably hiding in there.

Come on, Misaki, hurry.

Reika, Reika!

Over here!

I knew it.

Where are you?

Reika.

Reika?

I can't hear you.

Where are you?

Just stay put. Stop moving.

Reika?

Over here.

Kenta, where are you?

Sorry, I thought you were upstairs.

Don't move.

I'll find you.

There's no upstairs.

Kenta knows that. Why is he being weird?

Get behind me. Now.

- You! - Misaki!

She's not dangerous.

This thing's a Machine. Run!

What?

- Misaki is a Machine? What do you mean? - Well...

Misaki?

Where'd Kenta go?

It's him.

What is this?

No.