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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 and me.

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 lead 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's rebound under the Kim sisters' leadership has competitors rushing to

respond. Software giant Dillinger Systems appoints its new CEO Julian

Dillinger who vows to restore his grandfather's legacy.

The race between Encom and Dillinger Systems heats up as new CEOs Julian

Dillinger and the Kim sisters square off.

here at ncom 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

rival 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 whoever gets there

first.

Sweet music.

Who are you?

I am your creator.

And who am I?

Bahu.

What?

You are Dillinger Systems security software.

Programming Ares.

Defender of the Grid.

You.

Or Master Control?

Ares, I am Master Control.

Bye.

So, you made it.

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 Evie, remember, I'm still here.

Even if you can't see me, I love you.

Oh, gosh.

I'm Eve.

I'm not sure you actually told me we'd be stealing energy from the power grid.

Wow.

So this is where she kept coming back to, huh?

To be 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 gonna be doing CEO-type stuff while we're out here? You

know, like earnings calls and...

We'll launch our Panic City and stuff.

Let's just get this done.

Dude, I can make breakfast burritos right here.

Hell yeah.

This is for you, Tess.

Members of the board.

For over 40 years, my family at Dillinger Systems has battled ENCOM 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? When 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 are not.

Warning. Stand clear.

Outputting from Dillinger system server.

Raw material inflow initiated.

8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Transfer complete.

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, 2M240 machine gun. 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 Ares.

This is the most sophisticated security program ever written.

You want to shake his hand?

Go ahead. It doesn't bite.

Ares has billions of lines of code unique to him. Is it alive?

That depends on your definition, Stuart.

Because unlike you, he's biblically strong, lightning fast, and supremely

intelligent. He is fully proprietary and 100% expendable.

Ares 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.

Ares is predictable, controllable, and fully aligned.

Satellite front with isotropic lift turning cyclonic, predicted

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.

Time? 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 only son.

It's a pleasure.

Unremarkable.

Market share was up 12% during my tenure. That's hardly... Anyway, we

don't say it superseded. We... We call it giving birth.

Of course.

It's an honor to meet my creator's creator.

Oh, well, here we go.

I noticed you left out the part where you can't seem to keep this thing of

yours alive for more than 25 minutes. 29.

Deceiving 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.

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, can't get enough.

Isn't that wild?

Hello?

Nice to see Tess wasn't the only obsessive one in the family.

Yeah, Seth, you're right. Sorry, I paid more attention to you. Oh, don't worry

about it.

Okay. I'm sorry. Get out of here.

Look, three months in Sub-Zero is a long time. I get it. Yeah, and four days.

10 hours, 32 minutes. Who's counting, really?

You know?

Hold on.

What do you mean?

What?

Seth? Well, you found something?

I think so.

It's a line of code.

That's how he hid it. It's two lines.

Whoa.

That looks like a double helix.

It is a double helix.

Tess would have loved this.

Wait, are you serious? So no more 29 minutes now?

If this is what I think it is, it's the permanence code.

NCOM offline trial 317A-1.

Permanence code implemented. Testing for asset stability beyond current 29 minute

barrier. Go.

when you are.

Okay.

It's all in the wrist, baby.

That never gets old.

Trial commenced. 29 minutes and counting down.

Let's see if you last this time.

Aerys 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 could almost feel it.

Feel?

I don't understand.

This is Eve. Get sensible and text.

Hey Eve, it's Erin.

Got AJ for you again. Head us back.

Still stripped of voicemail.

CEO of Fortune 500 Company and your phone's down on our biggest night?

God damn it, where the hell are you, Eve?

Five,

four, three, two, one.

Did we just do it?

Dude, it's still there!

Did we just change the world, man?

You did it, Eve!

Big news out of Incom 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? Carry on.

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.

What 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 going to find her, and when I do... No, no, I don't like it. It's too

risky, Julian.

Oops.

Thank you.

Security brief and all is known.

Programs, our directive is clear.

Penetrate the server core and extract Evachem's user file.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Space Paranoids fans, are

you ready?

Put your hands together for ENCOM CTO AJC!

It's cowboy time.

Thank you

I'm going in.

I'm in.

I'm a genius!

Who knew you raised a genius mother?

I'm in!

You deep shit.

Initiate containment protocols and pull all network access.

We need a response now.

Initiate security protocol.

People are trusting artificial intelligence with their lives.

Are you comfortable with this?

Well, look.

For every doomsday scenario, there's a medical breakthrough, scientific

discovery. So maybe what emerges from the unknown isn't so scary.

What if its major malfunction is just benevolence?

What is this?

What's he doing?

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.

Programs.

We fight.

You're gonna make it, Caius.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your knight to expose their queen.

To debut the latest version of Space Paranoid's Panic City with the world.

This is crazy.

Technical difficulty. We'll be back.

Well done, Master Control.

Eve Kim's file acquired.

Objective achieved.

Sir.

I'm curious why the program Caius was not reconstituted.

I'm curious why you are curious.

Caius was dysfunctional, so he was deleted.

Just like any program that operates outside their directive can be.

Do you understand?

Acknowledge Master Control.

Of course.

We are 100% expendable.

New mission, Master Control.

Locate Eve Kim.

Yes, sir.

Seems like we had a little cyber breach, Jules.

But then of course you knew that.

And 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 them 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 Wonderboy Sam

Flynn, now his 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 ain't much left of it after tonight.

End of line!

I hate that man.

Thank you so much.

You know, I made those oranges.

It's a long story.

What are you doing?

1913 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 permanence code?

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 are too. We gotta move on this.

Eve, you've done a great thing.

Tess did a great thing.

I'm en route to ENCOM. We'll secure the code. I have it with me on a drive.

um hi i am fearless and therefore powerful so apparently

we just sold our 10 millionth unit eevee space paranoids

kevin flynn wherever the hell he is has a big smile on his face

Breaking news, ENCOM's head of special projects, Tess Kim, died today after a

long battle with cancer.

Her sister, Eve Kim,

Permanence.

Checkmate.

And so our

heroes venture off into the night, nothing but the clothes on their backs

and... Well, a $6 million 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.

Buggles holding it.

Stage one load is complete.

Check, sir. Three.

You have 29 minutes to bring me Eve, Tim.

Target identified.

I'm awesome!

Intercepting now.

Eyes on the target.

What are you saying?

Prepare the particle laser.

Time to move to plan B.

Yes sir.

Yeah, you want to play?

What are you?

I am Master Control.

What do you want?

I want the code.

Well, it's gone.

No, it's not.

Establishing connection to the grid now. Ready to transfer in T minus 15 seconds.

You're a program.

You're timing out.

What have you done?

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 lifeform in progress.

Digital reconstruction initiated.

20% digitized.

40% digitized.

65% digitized.

95% digitized.

Digitization complete.

Run diagnostics and scan for corruption.

Eve Kim identity disk activated.

Where am I?

The Linger system 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. Silence, user.

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.

Sir, her disc 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.

Copy.

Wait. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Stop.

Athena is correct.

There's only one user whose directive we follow.

What would remain of the 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.

Yes, sir.

Extracting the permanence code would delete the carrier from the grid and

from your world.

Once upon a time, there was a weapon and its name was Ares.

And Ares obeyed every command of Julian Dillinger. And Julian Dillinger made a

trillion dollars and wrote his name on the face of time in blood!

Now, whatever pepcac error is behind these feelings... I'm going to find it

and rip it out of you.

Do I make myself clear?

Perfectly. Program dismissed.

The creature also said, I am fearless.

And therefore powerful.

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 and Mama on the mandolin. I gave you an order.

The creator is indisposed.

Hold extraction until we receive further directive.

Do I make myself clear?

Yes, sir.

Programs dismissed.

Can I trust you?

It's a complicated question. How much time you got? 60 seconds. Answer now.

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'd like to 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?

And Julian Dillinger?

You can't trust him. For him, everyone and everything.

is expendable.

I miscalculated. We have a new directive.

Athena doesn't have to be like this.

They're headed towards the transfer portal.

We lost them in the grid, ma'am.

Preparing the drones.

Delete Ares and bring the user back to me.

Copy.

What happened back there?

I disobeyed my directive.

Which was?

To retrieve the code from your disk and delete the carrier.

Schillinger 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.

Zeroing in on target.

Shut them down!

I need something in return.

Told you I don't have the code.

We found it once. You can find it again.

So you can give it to Dillinger?

Not for Dillinger.

For me.

But we have the deal.

Sir, do we have a deal?

Yes. Yes, I know where to find the code. Just get me out of here.

Target approaching Bradford Portal in 45 seconds.

I should get offline.

Please stand clear.

What is it? Who authorized this?

Sir, this originated inside the grid.

Julian!

Clear the area.

Get everybody out of here! Clear the central area.

Transfer complete. Move in!

Just got double-crossed by my program.

It wants the permanence code for itself.

Eve, is that the deal?

It gets you out of the grid, 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.

28 minutes, 41 seconds.

Ares! I do hope this works out for you.

There's no second chances, no do-overs.

These are the last 29 minutes you'll ever have!

Better make it count!

She'll need you to name her slave.

Transfer 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.

Atta girl.

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 in 1989.

I found the permanence code on a backup of Flynn's server.

That server?

is at encom's office downtown but we can make it within 26 minutes 9 seconds eve

your plan contains two major flaws okay one income 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 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, whose phone is this?

Listen to me.

I need you at MCOM in 15 minutes.

Hey, is everything okay? Seth, bring the particle laser.

MCOM, 15 minutes. Got it.

That's my car. I'll borrow you another 50K.

Hey, that's my car.

The Honda Civic 2.0 four-cylinder with 138 horsepower.

Classic.

That's my car.

That's my car.

eve yeah i was thinking about the time you told your sister that you wished you

never relaunched of space paranoids and he went on to say that oh my god of

course you read all my texts yeah man 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 smash mode Number eight

on the UK singles chart, 1982.

I find their brand of pithy, catchy, timeless, and true 80s electropop to be

deeply invigorating.

16 minutes, 20 seconds.

Okay, so you like 80s pop and cyber-spy 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 a pretty cool 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 certain fixation, but not being able to live up to her

standards, which must have been complicated, especially considering she

was the younger sister.

I'm 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 hand over the Permanence Code to INCOM and then let them figure out what

to do with it next, no?

Yeah, now I understand.

You completed her work as a way to stay connected to her.

Huh.

And now what?

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

Oh,

look who it is. Glad 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... Eve?

Mm-hmm. You gotta bring your badge.

Okay, yeah.

Jolene. Hello, hello, hello. Jolene, hi.

Got her badge right here.

His too?

Uh, nope. He's not with us. Yes, he is. Yes, he is.

Right, sir. Literally anywhere you'd like.

This is my boyfriend, Ares.

No, Master Control Security Program from Dillinger's Grid. Ares, Seth. Seth,

Ares. God.

Pleasure. Yeah, that's nice. So, Ares, like, is in the God of War, Ares?

Yeah. Cool.

You're Greek. That's awesome.

So, when you say that he's the security program, do you mean he's, like... Yeah,

he's not human. He's not human. Originated inside a GPU.

Okay, is this for the Christmas video?

Three minutes to be a resolution.

Can you work with that set?

Yeah?

Don't need help guys So

this

is where I found the permanence code on a backup of this server Talk

about first-gen Talk about a piece of garbage, am I right?

That was super insensitive to your ancestors, and I'm so sorry.

It's going to take me a few minutes to set this up. No rush.

Two minutes, 18 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, if I were to guess, think 80s?

80s. I like the 80s.

One minute, 31 seconds.

Okay, come on.

Please, help me.

Okay, all set.

Adapters.

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 could

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.

Mine, too. Oh, mine, too.

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?

Athena.

Wait, who?

Seth, the laser.

The laser!

Okay, initiating systems down.

Connecting to the Flynn grid.

Fire up the laser.

Wait, what's she doing?

She's waiting for me to time out.

Then she'll come for you.

We're almost there. Get ready.

Come on, hurry, hurry, hurry.

Ares, move in front of the laser.

Okay, we're ready.

What are you doing?

Come on.

Change of plans.

Well, that actually worked.

He's inside.

Great.

Thank you.

Time to get back to the grid. Leave alone!

You're very persistent, user.

She'll be back.

Ares.

He can't get out.

Binary digit you're a bit I'm looking for

something. Can you help me find it?

Classic.

I'm surrounded by the wide-scale destruction caused by tonight's brazen

attack that left local residents stunned.

Now, there is speculation that Dillinger's systems had something to do

with the event, and authorities have remained intent.

Citizens and authorities are like, what, uh, was this a grenade attack?

What technology?

What now?

What is this?

Where's my code?

Hey!

What are you doing? Who gave you this directive?

You did, sir.

What is this?

Warning.

No, no, no, no, no, no. This is too big, Athena, too big! Juliet!

You're done.

The board is moving as we speak to strip you of your title, and I'm reassuming

control of the company.

No, you can't do that. Can't do that! Yes, I can. This is not going any

further.

My first order of business is shutting down the permanence project.

Mom, no!

Don't be afraid.

We gave a thousand lives for the grid.

You only have to give one.

No, no, no!

No, no, no!

Impediment eliminated.

What did you do?

What did you do?

I am fulfilling my directive.

Capture Eve Kim, return her to the grid by any means necessary.

Scanning for further impediments.

Please, clear.

Hang on, Mom. Hang on.

Greetings program.

Not good.

Um, Eve?

What the hell happened to our office?

AJ, look, there's no time. The Dillinger's 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 a... 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 met the most advanced AI known to mankind.

His name is Ares.

Like the God of 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.

Classic humor, man.

What are you looking for?

Permanence.

The permanence code, to be exact.

Strange things have been happening. I question my directive. I disobeyed my

directive.

A malfunctioning program that 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.

Fascinating.

Fascinating.

AJ, can you send the prop, please?

Sure, yeah.

Not now, Seth.

Okay.

Hey, are you sure? Because that looks like an actual recognizer flying towards

us.

What in 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 run a wireless direct link protocol.

So let's use what's left of the laser to ping the network and trace a 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.

You guys got this.

You're right. I think there is something wrong with me.

Or maybe there's something right with you.

Maybe you're just learning.

That's what we all ought to be doing.

Back in the day when tech was young, I'd think, damn, we're moving fast.

You move fast, you leave stuff behind.

How many people...

Born in this century. Have you even heard of Mozart?

I like Mozart.

That said, if I'm being honest, I prefer Depeche Mode.

Really?

Why is that?

I know one is considered the greatest composer in the history of Western

civilization, the other a synth pop band 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 of Depeche Mode into words. It's just...

Good man.

Impressive. Fully segmented zero-trust architecture.

Built to be totally impregnable to vertical, lateral, or hybrid attacks.

Dammit. Can't get a connection, dude.

No luck here either.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Come on.

A little closer.

Alpha 1 to base, tally on hostile.

Confirm visual ID.

Copy. Fox 2 missile away.

One negative, missile intercepted. Be advised, enemy flight arrest force

inbound and moving fast.

Copy, Raven 1. Set 340 threat posture.

Spy for one, tally multiple bandits.

Hostile attention first.

Mayday! Mayday! I'm hit!

Spy for one, punching out.

Guys?

Guys?

Oh my god, there's hundreds of them.

They're going after Eve.

If we can't access the Dillinger server, there's gonna be nothing left to save.

Sway the one. Enemy aircraft engaged.

I'm defensive.

Multiple bandits.

Redirecting to primary target.

I'm hit. Punching out.

Ready? I hope you are, man, because there's no going back.

Permanence.

Funny.

When I found it, that's what I called it.

I know better now.

It ought to be called the Impermanence Code.

The back door to my old lair.

One door round.

That's all you've got.

One.

This is all I want.

Love that!

You keep surprising me!

We'll do this from the ground then.

And there are reports that a civilian may be on board, making this a possible

hostage scenario.

Athena. She must have gotten Eve.

Soon we'll be back on the grid.

URGH!

Hey, Aaron.

Seth?

Stop the clock.

No way. You're in?

There's a reason why I have the corner office, my man.

Hey.

He came back.

How did you... Let's just say I had a little help from a friend.

Wait. The Zillinger Grid.

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 you she wants.

If she gets the code, you can't be stopped.

You had everything.

Go. No. The most advanced.

The most powerful.

You can't wait for her.

Go!

This is the end for you.

payload ready for transfer shipping ads let's hope he was right

alert unknown file incoming

in

pursuit of this life for yourself did you once consider what that meant for

the greater

We were given an order.

It is our purpose.

It's not our purpose.

It's our programming.

Our purpose is yet to be determined.

It's over.

There's no coming back.

No.

Not this time.

I followed my directive.

I know.

And now?

What is yours?

I'm not sure.

I guess we'll see.

Dillinger Systems is under intense scrutiny tonight as speculation grows

around its potential involvement in the series of devastating attacks that have

rocked the city. Federal authorities have confirmed an active investigation

into the company's recent activity, and many are pointing directly at CEO Julian

Dillinger. Agents have been trying to question the CEO, as well as his mother,

and locate board members who may be questioning the situation.

Meanwhile, the city remains in disarray. Emergency services are overwhelmed.

While entire neighborhoods are dealing with the violence of the military.

Julian Dillinger, this is the police.

We have you surrounded.

Open the door and come out with your hands up.

Wait!

Wait, wait!

Stay where you are!

You good?

Oh, I think I broke a rib.

You still gonna quit your job?

No. I'm not gonna quit anything.

Good.

Good.

I have some ideas.

Oh, yeah? Nice.

Mm-hmm.

Well, the world needs you, Eve.

The grid needs you.

It's funny, permanence.

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.

No.

There isn't.

So where are you gonna go?

I have some ideas.

Thanks to the discovery of the Permanence Code, the company has made

revolutionary advances, growing crops in climate-vulnerable regions, developing

drugs for treatment-resistant cancers, and accelerating the development of...

Oh,

I 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, well, 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, Ares.

oh it's gonna go this way there's no turning back never any other way

there's no turning back everything for a reason everything for a reason

everything for a reason everything for a reason give me something

to believe in all these hands have gone

Something to believe in.

It's a lie that you need me to believe.

Something in my eye Something

in the way it feels here

Something to

believe What I used to be

i just don't know anymore i just

don't know anymore

Some place I could never go Oh, I

wish I didn't know If

I could stay here

I could find a

way somehow

Thank God.

Hmm.