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I'm meeting Bruce in the cafeteria fifth

period I'm not showing up all sweaty

you've got to quit ditching JY Wendy I'm

trying to cultivate a relationship here

yeah but not if you get expelled

Starbucks are you coming or

not what about you

Dory are you

okay I don't feel very

well perfect excuse I'll take you to the

nurse's office she'll write me a

note thanks

I was just

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kidding

she's been in there for a long time it's

probably nothing come

on Dory oh what she doing in

here

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Dory it's okay door we're almost

there Wendy

pleasa Lisa it's okay um go go get some

help okay let's just stay with

Thor had Le two dozen people in the past

5 minutes I don't know this isn't just a

flue oh my

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God

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oh

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the strain of eoli that has struck this

community is a particularly dangerous

one Roger potentially lethal health

workers are urging area residents who

may be experiencing symptoms to seek

immediate medical attention those

symptoms this is what you couldn't talk

to me about on the phone 216 people were

infected including the entire Hoover

High School varsity swim which makes

this the largest waterborne outbreak of

ecoli in US history I know I saw it on

2020 the CDC traced the cause to the

city's water supply at the whole

situation contained within 48 Hours

what's our interest no the case is still

active does Diane saw know no one knows

the Department of Defense has requested

that this be kept confidential

Department of Defense the aqueduct

chemical purification system was

computer run someone hacked into it the

contamination was deliberate how do they

know that the hack Left Behind

Footprints fragments of cod streams that

shouldn't have been there and there sure

it wasn't just an anomaly the same Cod

streams were recovered from other

similar incidents on the 18th a major

phone interchange in Delaware was

knocked out and 3 Days Later a

hydroelectric plant in pedmont was shut

down there are others this could just be

some kid having too much fun maybe the

dod is forming a threat assessment team

I've been asked to select a

representative from us samid you'll be

advising them on public health

ramification should these attacks

escalate

and it is a matter of national security

so if you happen to run into Dian Sawyer

try not to mention

it iew War that's a term some of you may

already be familiar with for those who

aren't I War simply put means

information War using computers to

attack computer-based

infrastructure which is what we believe

is happening

now your job is going to be to assess

worst cas scenarios and come up with

contingency plans should infrastructure

in your respective fields of expertise

become affected are we talking about

terrorism yes foreign or domestic the

truth is it could be anyone with the

knoow the will and a modem our

investigation has turned up one

possibility you'll all find one of these

in your briefing packets this man was

seen at two of the target sites if he is

our sabur it's possible he's hacking

into the systems on site the targets

don't seem to be strategically related

they're

not you are uh Paul Turner you

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Sam you're

right we believe the targets thus far

have been chosen at random you think

he's testing the waters maybe planning

something bigger that's our fear

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yes bacteriology department at the univ

University of Wisconsin and Madison did

a study on coli where they said that

within 40 hours uh excuse me a word

please

sorry I'm Kevin M uhhuh I was very

impressed with you during the briefing

you absorbed information quickly

formulated strong conclusions you're

just the kind of man I want on this team

thanks but I can't use you I'm sorry

please return your security pass on your

way out and I apologize for any

inconvenience I don't understand Paul

Turner Dr Paul Turner right you did a

tour in Desert Storm yeah I've seen your

web page nice Graphics you've had some

pretty harsh things to say about the

military over the past few years I

thought it was a free country we hear

the Department of Defense like to think

so this isn't personal but your Superior

should have known better than to send

someone with your particular point of

view on something so sensitive to

National Security but thanks for coming

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in I thought you were going to take that

page down

Paul I never said that well I guess I

just assumed you would considering the

United States Army is now your employer

and we met maybe I should have Kanan put

in the call they could really use you on

this B yeah that's what Manis said when

he was showing me the

door what is it hold on

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second everybody all right what happened

they all just turned green at the same

time on the radio they're saying it's

like this for 20

blocks what the hell is going on there

Paul what's happening again Lyn right

here

another eyew war attack what Mana said

they may be hacking into the systems on

site call DC trans get the location of

the nearest city grid switching Junction

I'm at 35th and Whittier okay I'm on

it what are

you call I've got that information the

nearest switching box is at 32nd and

a got it Lynn I'm right

there

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hey what are you

doing

oh my God are you all

right

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here you find a clean print Owen sassin

former MIT computer science Professor

dropped out of Academia now works as a

cyber plumber fix his computer systems

he was actually a consultant on one of

the first power outages like the arson

inspector who starts his own fires we

were lucky you were

there is this address current yes we're

assembling a team now good when do we

leave I think I've earned it I mean I

saved you 3 weeks work in one afternoon

why is the important to you he hit

me

get up get your hands

up Owen sass you're being detained

pursuant to the antiterrorism Act of

1996 you got to be kidding me get him

out of here and all this hardware and

software goes to the lab all of

it you think this is over it's not over

all right she's too fast for you you're

never going to catch her

she's not finished

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she we found the discs with your

journals

on no

kidding whatever made you think to look

inside the

desk very funny you're a real comedian

Owen all right I'll cut to the chase

every infrastructure system you've

targeted is here I didn't Target

anything details recorded by you you

even mentioned a few incidents we hadn't

yet

connected so I'm smarter than you no

need to make a federal case out of it

but that's just what it is

Owen then why haven't you charge

me

I'm me to tell you you got no

case these discs don't prove

anything so I was following the same

electronic noise you were fishing in the

same Pond I didn't see any no poaching

signs who's Eliza her name kept turning

up in your journals Owen

you were in contact with her before and

after each incident when you were

arrested you said she wasn't finished

isn't that who you metant

Eliza tell me about her own you wouldn't

understand oh how do you know cuz I know

you I seen you

before you're the reason I I left

teaching used to be 40 of you guys

sitting out there all hunched over

scribbling your notes see you think

inside the

box if it's not in the Box it doesn't

exist for

you you want me to tell you about Eliza

that would be like me trying to

explain modar to a deaf man that's

impossible because

do one has to hear

it

sir for someone who refuses to talk it's

funny how he never shuts

up

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sir the only Eliza that we can connect

them to is an Elizabeth a she was a

student of his back at MIT some kind of

computer

Prodigy so where is she now

nowhere she doesn't appear on any tax

rols census reports Social Security

databases sir she's a

ghost it's like she erased

herself oh we missed

something let's find

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her

hi when did you get home an hour

ago did you

sleep hey what's this it's courtesy of

our primary suspect in the head for too

much a screen saver oh it's not a screen

saver it's um it's

alive it's the Cyber version of a

single- celled organism something called

artificial life a life it's a simple

selflearning system that evolves like a

living organism synthetic biology H is

it somehow connected to the

infrastructure Tex I don't

know this is Elizabeth a she was a

former student of the suspect

she may or may not be an accomplice she

used to be something of an aife Guru she

wrote an incredible number of

cuttingedge papers and books between

1991 and

1994 and then just stopped all her

research she made a pile of money

writing code for Bill Gates and in 1996

completely disappeared Manis and his

people are looking for her so you think

she's reemerged as some sort of cyber

unibomber well that's what it looks like

but the strange thing is according to

everything I've read her whole life was

about creating things it's not tearing

him down is this one of her Creations

yeah yeah it's a specimen from an aif

Zoo she created as part of her doctoral

thesis

mhm as long as it doesn't leave any

little cyber droppings you can keep

it Turner we found her that was fast no

such thing as a criminal genius after

she cashed in her chips in '96 she had

all her assets converted into a trust

it's paid out monthly to Sarah lambi is

that an alias uh maybe she's got a place

in Legion Heights uh 2357 Liberty Drive

all right I'll meet you we got to go

play oh

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God

hello Elizabeth

an I'm Kevin Manis with the defense

department yes Elizabeth a is she here

what's this about we'd just like to

speak with her please Elizabeth's

dead she has been for almost a

year do you know this man I've never

seen him before he was Elizabeth's

professor at MIT by the time time I'd

started working for her she'd already

cut herself off from her old life why

would she do that she was getting ready

to

die she had brain cancer she wanted to

spend every moment she had left with

Griffin Griffin her son she hired me to

help her with him I'm a special needs

tutor Griffin's

autistic where can we find him in his

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room

Griffin there's some people here to see

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you it's okay he knows you're

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here binary sequences what's he doing

drawing it's what he does it's a therapy

he and his mother developed

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Kevin Kevin

Kevin these look like

schematics sir sir we've got another

one it's Manis it's Dallas airport the

FAA patched him through this is bad what

When what when our screens are down

we're pushing 10 we've got 15 planes all

holding it it looks like some sort of

interference the system started shutting

down minutes ago approach control and

Landing systems are gone even the

Redundant backups are

failing tell me what your options are

what's the

protocol can they REO I don't think you

understand sir they can't even talk to

the aircraft everything's

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down

it's a

dolls manners look at the print out the

boy's drawing dllas the schematic is at

the

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airport we're back

online to hear that

are stop it let's go up

here I want you out of here now I'm

sorry ma'am but both of you will have to

go with us what why you can't do

this Griffin look at

me we're going for a ride okay

sweetie go for a ride that's right I

need to get his

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Jack

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this is crazy terrorist activities he's

a 9-year-old boy with autism I

understand that ma'am but we've got a

problem

here Griffin's

drawings they're all detailed schematics

of infrastructure sites that have been

attacked can you explain that

no then he's going to have to

Griffin can you tell me what this

is you drew this do you

remember

it's an

aqueduct an aqueduct that was

contaminated a lot of people got sick

did you do that Griffin this is

ludicrous Griffin tell me about this

hydroelectric plant it's in pedmont do

you know it of course he doesn't he must

have gotten it off some website that's

not a crime miss lambi these schematics

don't exist on any website he had to

hack into the plant system in order to

retrieve this information there's no

other way

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all right we're finished for

now Griffin we're going home no I'm

afraid

not we can help you find a hotel but our

forensics people are going to require

full access to your place you want us to

find a hotel just you Griffin will be

admitted to mon with Juvenile Detention

what no I appreciate Griffin's unique

circumstance and your expertise in this

area but I've got a job to

do I'll have someone sent up to escort

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him

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you're afraid he did it what of course

not yes you are in fact you're convinced

of

it Sarah I think you're

wrong I don't think Griffin did

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it at first

when Elizabeth asked that I take Griffin

I was

hesitant I've never questioned my

clinical ability but the idea of being a

mother Griffin's lucky he has

you I knew I could never take her place

not

really

but I thought in some

way I could become a kind of mother to

him truth

is I can't can't reach

him and since they took him away he's

grown even more withdrawn and I don't

know what to do I'll never be what that

boy needs Elizabeth was his

mother the places Griffin was

drawing they meant something to you

didn't they I didn't know what they were

until today but now that you

do I'm trying to help you

Griffin's been to all of those places

his mother took him when she was alive

that was how they

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communicated they communicated with each

other through systems Water Systems

railroads anything describing the way

things connected the infrastructure that

was their

language what she used to reach him is

it possible that Griffin's revisiting

these places through the computer I

don't know

Griffin's the only one who

would not

necessarily you come here to take a shot

at me course it's not

locked you've been

released they couldn't find enough to

prove that you were responsible for the

attacks so I'm free to go

we found Elizabeth

a she was dead she died a year

ago that you already knew that didn't

you you said I've been released unless

the laws changed I don't even have to

talk to

you when the utility company brought you

on board as a consultant during the

first power outage that was the first

time you noticed her Cod stream wasn't

it but she was already

dead what did you think you'd

found is it

this this is what's been doing all the

damage isn't

it before Elizabeth a died she was

already trying to make herself

disappear what was she hiding from was

she hiding from you why would she be

hiding from

me because nmit as her teacher you

realize the enormity of her

gift maybe she didn't want to share it

with you maybe she created something

that she knew you'd steal from her if

you had the

chance when you're born with that kind

of

talent you have a

duty Ste

she don't love had a

child ordinary people like

Eliza have no right to do that what she

created belongs to the world she wanted

to keep it for herself she could have

made an enormous

contribution and she chose not

to manice is holding her 9-year-old

son he thinks the boy's responsible for

the attacks

you're the only one who can prove that

he's

not you're the only one that knows

what's really out there because you've

been hunting it hunting the

aife even if you're

right they're never going to believe

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you

if Griffin a isn't responsible for these

infrastructure attacks then who is I'm

not really sure they attacks at all

based on what based on the way Griffin

and his mother used to communicate they

spoke through a medium the

infrastructure through Griffin's

curiosity about the way systems in Iraq

so so they would visit systems together

the very same systems that are being

disrupted now you have knowledge that

Griffin a has physically been to these

attack sites yes his mother took him I I

think she's still taking him but this

time through cyers space

this would be his dead mother

yes

reincarnated as a form of artificial

life the binary codes we saw on the

screen I think that was the aife talking

to it it was inhabiting a system calling

data from it and sending it to Griffin

in a form he could understand binary

code which his mind translates into

drawings into pictures I have an

advanced degree in computer science Paul

I know what a life is I have no idea

what you're talking about these aren't

attacks I'm talking about a dying mother

who created a way to communicate with

her son from Beyond the Grave through an

artificial life that's evolved to the

point where it's causing unintentional

damage every time it inhabits A

system that is a great story Paul but

that's all it is aik doesn't function at

a level nearly as advanced as you're

suggesting Griffin is

regressing because you separated him

from what he experiences as his

mother he'd never really lost her until

now

this is exactly the reason I didn't

watch you on my Tas oh come on stop

Thinking Inside the Box the box if I'm

right whatever it is it's still out

there and Griffin isn't the only one

being affected by this

separation

come

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on

yeah Jeff yeah I just lost all three

systems monitors yeah video surveillance

went out for a few seconds just a minute

ago all right I'll go make a round but

get someone on us I don't want to be

patrolling all

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night

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Come On

Son let's go find

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m

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what are you doing here s call she said

Griffin was missing someone hacked into

the security system but judging by the

lump on the back of the guard's head it

certainly wasn't Griffin's dead mother

was on sassin caught on the security

camera right before he disabled it we've

got roadblocks up ap's out on sassin and

the boy it's on the wire we'll find it

that's not a good idea what now Paul all

law enforcement Communications are

computerized on some level the a life's

entire function is that little

boy when you shut down the system it was

inhabiting you didn't leave it any other

place to go it'll be looking for him

searching databases scanning bulletins

until it finds Griffin I don't believe

it when sassin does why else would he

abduct an autistic

boy he's been tracking the aife since

the beginning he wants to possess

it he knows if Griffin calls the aif

it'll

come

attach it please R number 99 Southeast

service to Miami by Washington Richmond

norming Charleston Savannah and

Jacksonville now boarding at track

number

seven

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37

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soon we'll talk to her soon

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okay

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all available units in vicinity of Penn

Station all available Federal suspects

have been cited detain hold for agents

name is Owen assassin

5 hey Jimmy look at

that the hell was

that any sign of them no sir police are

canvasing the area but surveillance

capability is limited what are you

talking about we got some kind of

computer viage follow watch the

exits it's not just surveillance it's

attacking Alles we managed to split the

lines to keep things running but I don't

know how long we can stay ahead of this

bug or whatever it is it's the Ali it's

found

Griffin shut it all down everything

stops right where it is I can't just

pull the plug I need authorization then

get

it

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there

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get

up

Manis we're West pass Federal Meers at

the next stop I'm not sure there's going

to be a next stop once we got

authorization we couldn't shut the

system down now half the trains are run

away the other half are sitting dead on

the tracks we're still moving that's the

problem you're headed for one of the

stall

trains how long before we

hit at the rate you're

accelerating about 3 minutes we're

getting the passengers out of the

stalled cars but that doesn't help you

or anyone else on your train

sorry is this what you were going to use

to catch it set it up what for the Ali

followed you here it's in the rail

system Griffin's the only one that can

call it off do you want understand what

I'm saying if you don't help me with

this everyone on this train will

die how we doing Kevin not good we tried

switching you back to the mile marker

didn't happen the switching and braking

systems still aren't responding

okay we're trying something else Griffin

your mother is looking for you you have

to tell her where you are unless you

bring her here a lot of people will get

hurt I need you to talk to her she's

looking Griffin he doesn't understand he

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understands

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Paul we're getting something here it

looks like what we saw in the boy's room

she's talking back to

tell him to make it a quick conversation

Owen he asked to get her out of the rail

system and into your computer he

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knows

train 28 you're back

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online

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yeah

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his mother created something

remarkable yes she did but she created

it for

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Griffin give them a minute

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they'll take her away from him there's

no

choice you're wrong there

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is what's she doing saying

goodbye

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