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Kurt Wintergill.

Any calls, Oscar?

One message.

Cosmos confirms your 10 a .m. appointment with Walter Baskin.

Would you like me to prepare some food?

Nah, I had deli on the way in.

What I need right now is a little R &R.

We have several new selections on Interactive One.

Why don't I run through some choices for you?

Oscar, tonight, let us configure to improvise.

Must be summer.

Bluebells.

Daisies. And daisies.

Thought maybe you jilted me for some other guy's fantasy.

And pass up a date with such a handsome, important man.

Not everybody in the department shares your opinion.

At least, not about the important part.

You should not admit yourself like that.

Not when you're on top of such a prominent investigation.

Forget about that.

I want to know about you.

I'm anything you want me to be.

It excites me to hear you talk about your work.

The power you have over people.

It makes me feel alone.

Can you keep a secret?

I finally got the goods on Sonny Higori and the rest of his tech -dealing slime.

Really? Really.

I'm gonna sweep those vermin off the streets and into a nice, cold freezer.

For good.

Got hung up?

No problem.

Drink? No, I'm fine.

Hey, take a glass of caramel malt and one tangerine margarita.

I don't drink those anymore.

Why not? Those are your favorite.

A long time ago.

Yeah, I guess a lot's happened in four years.

Changing husbands, I can understand.

Come on, Jake, we weren't going to do this. What a new drink.

I mean, did Bennett actually make you choose a new personal drink? I mean,

that's pretty sick, eh? You know, Jake, you don't have to hate him.

He takes care of us.

He cares about your fun.

I know you like Bennett's money.

I know I didn't make enough money for you as a cop.

But Danny needs a real father.

You don't know.

You don't have a clue.

I know that he isn't out there on the weekend teaching my son how to pitch a

baseball. Neither will you.

Well, I would now.

Come on, Jake.

Come on, Jake. Come on, Jake. Come on, Jake.

You know, Danny's the star of his wrestling team at school.

Bennett's the coach.

Actually, Bennett was a regional middleweight champion when he was at

You're right.

But Danny doesn't like baseball.

It reminds him of you.

He's my son, Kate.

Bennett wants to adopt Danny.

He's my son.

He's been Bennett's son for the last four years.

I want to hear this from daddy. Okay. I want to see him and I want to hear it

from him.

You can't listen.

Listen.

The holy grail of artificial intelligence isn't reason or logic.

It's those aspects of the human experience that we can't reduce to ones

zeros, such as pain, longing, confusion, and love.

For want of a better term, the human soul.

Dr. Kittredge. Yes, Dr. Chen, go ahead.

If a computer can mimic the full range of the human mind, even the irrational

subconscious, would it not in fact possess that very soul you describe?

Well, let's put it this way. A machine like that might learn to accept losing a

bridge, but it would have a lot more trouble with bowling.

There is a serious point.

Isolated from the human form, it's unlikely a machine can possess the human

soul. Yet your own research points to some very interesting breakthroughs. You

seem to know a lot about my work.

I find it fascinating.

Well, you should also know that it is entirely theoretical.

And I expect to stay that way for the foreseeable future.

I'm sorry to say our satellite time is up. Thank you all for coming. I hope to

see you next month.

You're good in there. You really had him laughing.

I'm sorry she can still get to you.

She made this, you know, during her pottery phase.

Maybe this is a good thing.

First time I see you work out your throwing arms since we met.

I don't know, Beth.

I feel like I'm still in the freezer.

You're warm.

You're alive.

Vance wants to adopt Danny.

We won't let him.

I'll be here to help.

And Sid, too.

Come on, we'll help you do what's best for Danny.

What if what's best for Danny is that I stay out of his life?

You better get that.

Hey, Jake.

Hey, just when I least expect it, I can always count on your smiling ugly face

turning up.

Jake.

You're not smiling.

Someone tried to kill Wintergill.

What?

What happened?

Baskin wants to see you priority one, and he says to bring Beth.

Why me?

Ghetto D will resume on level nine.

Less than 24 hours ago,

Winter Guild called to arrange an urgent meeting.

When he didn't show, I put in a trace.

And this is where I found him.

Since when is Bascom cozy with Winnigill? All he said was that it

Hickory case and an ongoing investigation with the Tech Lord.

And he said that the information was for Walter J. Bascom only. And Bascom said

he didn't have a clue, right?

Well, he's holding back on us this time.

Hold on to that skeptical attitude, Jake. It might prove useful.

Winnigill obviously didn't trust his own police department.

So he held out his hand to me, Freckle.

Well, he had something on Hickory.

I'd bet on it.

First rule of police work, there are no coincidences. And when there are, they

won't pay off.

That's the second one. First and second. I don't care if it's the 14th

Amendment. If you're saying that Okari is behind all this, I want to know for

sure.

Why?

I have my reasons.

May I?

Be my guest.

Communications aperture number five. Now engaging.

Do we know how this was done?

Well, the symptoms are the same as a massive stroke, but there's something

disrupting his nervous system on a cellular level.

These patterns are like nothing I've ever seen.

The doctors said that it was beyond their scope.

I offered them all our resources, but... Really?

I'd have to take a crack at this.

Give Miss Kittredge everything she needs, including access to all the

research files.

Now you know why you're here.

How long do you think this will take?

The question is, how long do I have?

It's a coma.

People come out of comas all the time, don't they? Not like this one.

The rate the disease is attacking his autonomic system,

Winter Guild will be dead within 24 hours.

Your request for a call to the law firm from Shields and McNair has been

approved. You are linked via infrared scans to outgoing line 7 -9 Alpha for

seconds. Begin now.

Sonny! They said your call wouldn't come through till later.

Yeah.

I'm sure you would have liked more time to tidy up.

Spending a little steam here.

I invited a couple of friends over.

Relax, Eddie.

You can bring over the whole women's roller hockey league for all I care.

As long as you keep on track.

Sonny, should you be talking like that from the tower?

Privileged call to my attorney.

I just prearranged for it to fall to you. They listen in, and it's an

instant mistrial.

Good, good.

You got all the angles worked. I knew you would, sonny. Twenty seconds

remaining.

Shut up and listen, will you, Eddie?

I want to make sure the meet's going ahead as planned.

Of course.

I got it all arranged.

I booked a room in the free zone at the banquet hall.

And all the lords are going to be there?

They know what's important.

I can handle things, you know.

I bet you can, Eddie.

Call terminated.

A limo, huh?

Boy, that is an old classic.

Pretty posh. Yeah.

Bennett says he's going to let me drive it.

I don't know. The parking lot or something.

Look at this guy.

What are you doing?

Dad, come on.

You're still going to call me dad, huh? Well, that's good.

Simone tells me you're a wrestler.

Yeah.

Well, it's just the junior team, but Bennett's taught me some pretty cool

Bennett.

You like him a lot, don't you?

I guess.

Here, take some breadcrumbs.

What?

My grandpa used to throw breadcrumbs out just like that. He was a pigeon.

What are pigeons?

That's exactly what I say.

When he was a kid, there were these birds that used to just live in the

Get out.

No, no, I'm serious.

He used to hide in cracks of buildings and just fly around.

If you looked up at the wrong time, oh, you'd get proof.

If they were flying overhead, you know. Oh, charisma.

He took some breadcrumbs.

There's more out there.

There'd be hundreds of them.

Far as your eye can see.

Wow.

You know, Dad, it's funny.

When you were around, before you were sent away, I

never really did anything like this.

Yeah, I know.

I guess it's just because there weren't any pigeons around.

I guess I... I guess I never made the time.

Danny, tell me the truth.

You really want this adoption?

Yeah. I think so.

Maybe you and I can still...

Meet up in the park, right?

Toss a ball around.

Or feed the pigeons.

That's your mom. She probably thinks I kidnapped you.

Jake, is Danny there with you?

Yeah, he's fine.

Jake, can I hear you?

Kate, you're breaking up.

Jake, can you get me out?

Bandit get himself a high residence.

He did.

State of the art.

Come on.

Let's go see what your mom wants.

Jake?

Kate Cardigan?

Who are you?

Keep her a secret.

Danny Cardigan.

Stay here.

Is she gonna be okay?

Dad.

When's the doctor gonna come talk to us?

Try that again, Sans.

Go on, try it again. I'll pin your ears back.

Kate told me you were angry with her about the adoption.

What'd you do to her? What the hell are you talking about?

She was on the vid phone to you. I checked the records.

You sent some kind of energy surge down the line. I was with Danny when it

happened.

That is true.

I don't know how you did it, Cardigan.

But when I find out, when I get proof, I'm gonna kill you.

I hate to disappoint you.

There's nothing left for you to kill.

Doctor, I can find any specialist we need. Just tell me. If I knew, I would.

What's wrong with her?

Something is attacking her nervous system. Now, if this happened yesterday,

would say this is a unique etiology.

What?

There's a patient here with the exact same symptoms.

Wintergild? Yes.

That's right. So you do know about this.

Has there been any progress with Wintergild? Anything that might help

Inspector Wintergild died an hour ago.

I'd like to see her now.

Rough day, huh, sweetheart?

Oh, don't get excited, sugar.

I wasn't talking to you.

Checking the leads from the cops? They got nothing.

Kate was at her computer going through some personal files.

All routine stuff.

Look at this.

What's the one name that keeps showing up in the Winter Guild hit?

Name Slimeball with the top of a J. Cargan non -fan club.

I'm both for you, Corey.

What if we bounce his head off a jailhouse wall and see what leaks out?

Well, you know how to cheer a guy up.

I've got one question for you.

What's that?

If no coincidences, there's a second rule of police work, then what the hell

the first?

Dang, if I remember.

You have visitors.

Move to the center of the room.

Well, there he is.

Working up a sweat.

Getting nowhere.

The story of your life, sonny boy.

I'll take all the guards.

See if you can join me in here.

Oh, I asked them already.

Nobody wants to scrape you off the floor after we're done with you.

Oh, I'd love to.

Oh, now, see what you did, Sonny?

We're going to play good cop, bad cop.

But two minutes in here, you already got my friend riled up, which means I have

to be the good cop.

Hey, meat.

Maybe you can come back open mic night.

Work the room.

You know what I'm saying?

I got your meat right here, you cheesy little puss ball.

Hey, take it easy, Sid.

Look who we're dealing with. Come on. He's nothing but a little monkey trapped

in a cage.

Zapping through the deadlines.

That's a neat joke.

Hey,

I'm in solitary.

One phone call a week.

No way I will forgot from in here. I'm talking about my wife.

You got the wrong guy.

Is he playing dumb or is he really dumb?

Well, I say a bit of both.

Otherwise, he'd recognize an opportunity for a cooperation when he saw one. I

need your cooperation like I need a case of life.

My money guy is working things out for me. Jail or no jail. Hey, I'm going to

crack this case, Sonny. And whether I help you or whether I hurt you real bad,

that's up to you.

The good ones get under your skin, don't they?

Felt that way about a couple of my exes.

But I didn't do her, Cardigan!

We had him going, but don't keep me for this.

McCurry sounds like he was telling the truth about Kate.

Damn, I was hoping it was just me.

Yeah, but he's talking about Wintergild like he knew. He had Wintergild zapped

before he talked to Baskin.

But why Kate?

Kate got zapped after she talked to me.

After she saw you in person.

Maybe that part was a coincidence.

Yeah.

Except, first rule, there are no coincidences.

Second rule.

But maybe it was.

She's on the phone with you.

You assumed it was a check on Danny.

Maybe that was a white cake call.

Oh, you know something, partner?

I'd love to hear that from her mouth.

We crack Wintergild. Maybe we'll get an antidote to this thing.

Wintergild's apartment is scheduled for the evidence boys tomorrow.

Means we can get there first.

Why, Mr. J. Cardigan.

Sounds to me like you're trying to flout authority yet again.

Flout? Yeah, to scorn, show open contemptuousness.

You do buy yourself one of those vocabulary power interactives or

Yeah, and what if I did?

Hey, nothing.

Nothing at all.

All right, so we'll get off the next ramp and we'll go flout.

Yes, indeed. Let's flout.

Where's the hand plate?

A lot's changed in the last four years. They've got retinal scanners on these

new models. New technology.

Oh, yeah? Here's some old technology.

Security breach.

I tried to tell you. Security breach.

This should save us some time.

Someone beat us to it.

Maybe they're looking for the same thing.

Ah, central processing unit. I went to Gil's computer.

No, the cops have already wiped his memory.

a death -running analysis.

I wonder where a certified paranoid like Wintergild would stash his secret

files.

Hey, Sid, what's wrong with this picture?

Well, for starters, it's not facing the tool.

That's all those things are good for.

Wintergild on an exercise bike?

Gee, you're right.

Wintergild's idea of a workout is lifting heavy nachos.

If that's a workout cycle, I'm a prima ballerina.

The code.

He said.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that's normal for appliances.

Get out of here.

Come on, come on, come on.

Oh, I like bucklet you, but not this much!

Huh? The computer has tried over a billion combinations to try and decode

exocycle chip.

Still no luck.

You weren't kidding when you said Wintergate was paranoid?

Terrence, what are you trying to tell us?

We'll find out in time.

What about the central processor from his computer?

I'm running a program that we developed at the Institute.

The residual ghosts that we see here, it's actually data that was never

completely erased.

What kind of dad? It looks like the last time he used his computer for a virtual

reality game.

Center, can we enhance this?

Dr. Chen.

Hey!

What the hell was that?

A computer virus, and a very powerful one. Dr. Chen's image was a visual

manifestation of the virus.

Who is Dr.

Chen? I saved your program. I think we've got a good enough record of the

to run an analysis.

If it's the last thing the Winter Guild saw, then maybe it'll give us a clue to

what happened to Kate.

Will you talk to me, Beth?

It may be a lead.

Look, I'm not going to move any faster than looking over my shoulder. Beth. Go

home, Jake.

Come on, let's let the ladies work, man.

Yeah. Right.

Jake, I can't hear you.

Kate, you're breaking up.

Jake, can you hear me now?

Jake, is Danny there with you?

Yeah, he's fine.

Jake, I can't hear you.

Kate, you're breaking up.

Jake, can you hear me now?

Jake, is Danny there with you?

Yeah, he's fine.

Jake, I can't hear you.

Jake, is Danny there with you?

Don't shoot! Don't shoot! Just documents.

Documents. I so much as breathe in this trigger.

You have to bag your body parts.

You a... Jay Cardigan?

Who wants to know?

Documents.

I get ten credits extra if I get it directly in your hand.

Count Superior Court for adoption proceedings on Daniel Cardigan.

I see the lip has healed, Jake.

I assume that incident won't get in the way of these proceedings?

What, that you accused me of killing my ex -wife would affect my judgment on you

adopting my son?

So, let me introduce myself.

I'm Fred Shields, Jim McNair.

Shields and McNair.

Same law firm that represents Sonia Corey.

Well, that's our criminal division.

There are 200 attorneys at field to McNair, Jake.

And yet you can spare the time to handle an adoption case. Must be pretty

important. It is.

Now, you said that your attorney was from Dunwall and Fink. I don't believe

familiar with them, Jake.

Well, I wouldn't think you would be, Jim.

But the way I feel about it is, less time I have to spend with real

better off I am.

Hello,

Mr. Cardigan.

Yeah, this is a joke.

In re sans adoptions proceeding, subject Daniel Cardigan, I represent Jacob

Cardigan. And whom do I have the pleasure of facing across the table?

Uh, oh, sorry. This is, uh, this is... No, Fred. Fred and Jim. That's, uh,

Fields and McNair.

The region won't be able to tell them apart.

Oh, Fred, Jim. Let's wrap this up, and I'll see you on the golf course.

Well, uh, this is all pretty cut and dried. If there's not contest, well,

just sign on the dotted line.

All right. Jake, unless your former wife is capable of signing those papers,

too... I'm afraid I can't let you go ahead with this. But, Prudence, I told

before, I'm not contesting.

Mr. Cardigan can sign for both parents.

Normally correct.

But your attorneys have the Coddisfields drawn up so that Mr. Cardigan could not

intercede in any of Kate's legal affairs.

Kate herself signed the Coddisfields, so they can't be redrawn without her

signature. This is ridiculous.

Tell me what this means.

It means you shut that thing off.

Bennett, we'll go over all this later, okay? Mr. Cardigan, what it means is

you are Danny's sole legal guardian.

until Kate comes out of her coma.

Of course, with your permission, the boy could continue to live at his mother's

residence, in which case, Mr. Sands, all you're saying is that I've got to

figure out how to save Kate in order to help you take Danny away from me.

Hello.

Pleasure.

behind this is no amateur.

Have we gotten anywhere with the Dr. Chen lead?

Yeah. Hong Kong confirms that the real Dr. Chen is a retired 80 -year -old

professor living in Kowloon.

Pull up Sonny and Corey's files and see if there's anything there.

Wife, mistress, relative.

Sonny and Corey's family was wiped out during a triad turf war when he was 11.

The only other survivor is a twin sister, but nothing on her in the last

years.

So you're 11 years old.

Your family's dead.

What do you do?

Go live with a relative or something?

No. The files indicate Sonny attended a local orphanage run by Our Lady of the

Good Shepherd.

Convent. Here's a photo from the file.

Put the mystery face next to the kid.

Now age up the kid a little bit.

Nice work.

I will never forget the day they arrived at our school.

Two very frightened children.

And even then,

There was something very unusual about their relationship.

Yeah, there's not much in Sonny's life that isn't unusual.

Sonny was very protective of her.

He didn't want anyone to know that they were related, in case the people who

murdered their parents found him.

That's why she didn't show up in Sentra's files.

I beg your pardon?

Oh, nothing.

Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt you.

But that wasn't the strange part.

It was Torah.

Now, I remember there was this boy about Sonny's age. He had this bright green

ball that Torah wanted.

Sonny took the ball away, but that wasn't good enough.

She made him pin the boy down while she cut up the ball and stuffed pieces of it

into his mouth.

Nice.

I wonder where she is now.

Does she ever keep in touch?

I'm good.

But I am not that good.

She died?

No, it was Sonny that we prayed for every day when it should have been her.

She was killed more than a year ago in a boating accident.

And you're sure that she's dead?

Young man.

I may have let down her soul, but I did not mistake her body.

All of the sisters went to the funeral.

It was an open casket.

Tora Hokori is definitely dead.

Tora's vault is right here where it's supposed to be.

Call 3691 Riverview Cryo Retention Center.

This is odd.

Seems the vault is maintained by Kinatsu Corporation, lifting as its president,

Tora Yamamoto, aka Hikori.

Tora has a gravesite.

But she travels through the Matrix zapping people.

And she's the head of her own corporation.

Yeah, she gets around for a dead lady.

What does Komatsu do besides holding them gravesites?

It's a pretty tangled web.

Lots of sub -shells and dummy shells.

Hold on.

This one's pretty live.

What is it?

Intervi defense.

It's short for internal virus.

They specialize in protecting LCNs from IV.

Tora's CEO there, too.

This isn't a stock exchange.

Translate that into English for me, please.

LCN means large -scale computer network, not unlike the Matrix.

Why don't they call it LSCN?

Don't quit.

You know all about this stuff.

The Matrix has virus protection, as do all computer networks.

Some work better than others.

Well, Wintergild's virtual reality program, that was a computer virus that

carried by Tora's image.

Maybe it affects people, too.

Computer virus that breaks down the human mind? I don't know, Jake. It's

tried. No one has succeeded.

To your knowledge.

If there's something going on out there that I don't know about, I think I'd

know about it.

Intervalle sold off all its assets.

There's one employee left on the payroll, the programmer.

Name's unlisted, but I've tracked a recurring monthly financial transaction

local address.

Take Sid with you.

I'll be all right.

I'm disturbed as to how secretive our Mr. Carnigan can be.

you

From Intervi.

What?

The whole quarry sent me.

Oh.

Hey, listen, man.

I did everything they said.

Come on, you can't send me back.

Got through with you.

He's tweaking.

It's a virus.

Oh. Oh, no. No, no, no, no.

We're just trying to get out of here into the bargain. Hey, whoa there,

Hey, take it easy. Take it easy.

It's an antique.

And real bullets. And I'll use them if I have to.

All right.

All right, listen.

My name is Jake Cardigan.

I'm a private investigator.

All right?

Please, I need your help with the virus.

No.

No.

No more.

I should have stuck with machines.

Yeah, but you made it work on people.

Hey.

Who are you?

Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.

Somebody who knows what one of these things can do.

Hey, I found the guy that invented the virus.

You're kidding.

Bring him in.

I'll squeeze the antidote out of him.

He's gone.

Kind of that me.

The old -fashioned way, sort of.

I think I know how we can find him.

I don't believe you spent four years in this hellhole.

She don't put on any weight.

Chesterton, Gordon, LC -1174 -337. Seven -year sentence for first -degree

cybernetic sabotage.

Yeah, it's him, right?

And if you saw him, then he's not here.

Authorization confirmed.

Initiating reanimation procedure.

You're right.

It's not him.

How long before you talk to him? Four to six hours for full cognition.

Can you wait and speed that along a little bit?

Yeah, I'll watch you, son. If you wait here, you can see him as soon as he's

fully cognitive.

Oh, God.

It's been a mistake.

mistake. Taking chicken out of the vacuum box when you want fish that

that's a mistake.

Switching a dead body for a live one.

Whatever you want to call it. I call it a complete screw -up.

Someone cracked our nexus, and they programmed his release, and then they

inserted a program that fed in Chesterton's vital signs. As long as

body still in the pod, the computer didn't detect the switch.

Fit phone off.

At least we know who Kari is controlling Chesterton. He's the only one who would

access to Tora's body.

That's not all we know.

Winterdale's code.

Looks like some kind of calendar.

You sly, methodical dog, you.

He traced every move the Tech Lords made in the last month.

If Bates sneezed, looks like he knew about it. That would have blown the lid

Okara's empire.

He died to make sure that that didn't get into the wrong hands.

Which could have been anybody at the department.

He didn't know who to trust.

Well, we can't sit on this, so we have to keep it to ourselves.

Beth, some of these entries have question marks, like he had advance

information. How far ahead did he plot it?

It looks like he knew their meetings throughout this month.

And there's an entry for today.

Let's see it.

The banquet room.

That's a place in the free zone.

Must be quite a gathering.

You two look like you could use a good meal.

Sir,

it's an all -star car.

This jet infuses.

Round two.

is Eddie Hermosillo.

Sonny's heir apparent.

Well, here goes nothing.

Welcome, everybody, to the Billion Dollar Southern Region Roundtable.

Everyone here is a top seller, meaning that you have hooked more people on tech

than anyone else in the five -state area.

No more dreary lies, no more dealing with reality. Man, look at the way you

walk.

There's no way they'll buy you as Mambootoo.

Watch your mouth, my brother.

Let's see you put a little life into that walk, may I?

Your hands.

Your hands. Okay, I'll keep them in my pockets.

Can you read me?

Sorry, I thought I was tuned into the Funky Jake and Sidney show.

Honey, make sure you get it down.

D .A., I'll have a field day with D .A. If everybody could take their seats now.

And back there. Hans, Tommy.

Sit down.

Center, zoom in on Sid. Come on, guys.

There'll be plenty to eat for dinner. Jay, his mask is ripped.

Son of a... Come on, you guys.

Hey, Sid, remember that time in Hindu Town with the bear curry?

Gotcha.

Due to circumstances beyond his control, one of our esteemed members cannot be

with us this evening.

Sonny, this is to you.

May you rot in hell.

the one who served you the soup.

Perhaps you liked the salad.

I never forget a face I don't like.

And I don't like this face.

Get Mr. Funny Man out of here.

Don't worry.

It'll come back to him.

What business it had, dividing out the money's turf.

What the hell?

Relax, my friends.

Only a hologram.

Nothing to be afraid of.

You're supposed to be in prison. This is a little program I worked up a while

ago in case I couldn't join you in the flesh.

We don't need this garbage. Get the switch. And don't bother trying to turn

off. You see...

I have remote access to all the wiring in this building, something I'm sure

Eddie never thought of. Find the circuit box. While you gents and ladies

squabble over my empire, I've lined up enough doishma, pesos, and yen to buy

sell all of you.

From someone who shares my vision of the future, the most powerful computer

virus ever witnessed is about to be unleashed into the Internet.

Soon, it will begin reproducing itself with the capacity to attack anyone in

Matrix without mercy.

The world government will be forced to meet all our demands in exchange for

the antidote.

Sonny's out of commission.

There's no way that he can run this organization.

But I can.

He's dead.

Just another hologram.

She's dead.

She can't be here.

You're right.

I'm not here.

I'm everywhere.

Soon, Sonny and I will leave you.

Side by side.

You are disloyal, Eddie Hermosillo.

You and your friends tried to kill my daughter.

I was on the boat that night.

God, Sonny.

Shut down the Matrix. It's not that simple. Everything goes. Power,

communications, police.

The TAR is going to unleash all hell in the internet. Do it now.

Get the ass caught.

I saw the bomb explode, Eddie.

My last conscious moment as a human.

You should have used a bigger bomb.

like you're missing a terrific party, maybe you should go check it out.

It's about time. Yeah, you're welcome. Hey, just come back to me.

Sid Gomez, and this must be his buddy Cardigan.

I heard they thought you a few misguided people. I just remember the first world

police were.

And the bad guys behind you. All right, move it. Yeah!

I want to do it.

I want to check Chesterton's outgoing calls. I want to see who he called just

after he jolted me.

I mean, he's number one, and we lost him.

Tap into a local data file if you can.

Our best bet is still the Matrix.

We'll be booted back up in six minutes.

What, booted back up? What, are you crazy? No, she's just following orders.

Well, the Internet will be shut down by now anyway. I don't think so.

Commissioner Haskell wants more proof that there's a threat to Internet.

Because you told him to say that.

Now, how many people have to fry before you pull the plug?

You're pretty cocksure for someone who spent four years impersonating an ice

cube.

Cold hands, warm heart.

What's your excuse?

If the Matrix shuts down, so does the city.

And then the entire country follows.

And if the country shuts down, the whole global financial network collapses. And

then I'm in serious trouble.

Well, I'm glad to see you've got the world's best interest at heart. As

goes, so does the world.

I want the Matrix up and running. End of story.

Jake, you've got to get over this. What did he tell you to tag along? Because

where I'm going, I don't need anybody who's got to report back to the boss.

You need to chill.

If we're going to be partners, I've got to trust you.

Now, what's Baskin up to? But I told you. Hey, of course he's talking about

money people, people that see his vision.

Baskin wants to keep the Matrix up. Tell me why, Sid. I've got the same dad as

you. You know that.

What the hell is going on?

I'm on your side.

You better believe that, because right now, me and Beth are the only friends

you've got.

I'm sorry.

I don't even explain.

Just tell me where we're going and who we're going to do it to.

Corey's people got to know by now that I found Chester.

That could work to our advantage.

still paying off their traffic tickets.

All those stunts I pull on the way to the airport.

Just like me.

Yeah.

Just like me. Get you madder than hell and then show up at the last minute.

Hey.

Hey, how long you been standing there?

No, not long.

Just walked in.

Bennett just got in on the supersonic from Stuttgart.

Code blue.

Doctor on call to infirmary.

Code blue.

Remove his restraints.

No.

Remove them. Damn it, I don't want this man dying on the table.

Hygiene focari, initial F.

Records indicate history of inflamed ulcers.

It's bad.

Must be the food here.

We can't run over closer.

It's had uncomfortable.

I've heard.

You know your plaza's always welcome here, Jacobo, but I don't see why you

get your pals at Cosmos to do your grub work for you.

The guy I'm looking for, I haven't decided yet whether or not to ask him to

where he is. Oh, and what makes you think this guy is going to let you find

He probably won't, but by me looking for him, that's going to bring out the bad

guys and girls.

With bait like that, torture's going to break down your throat.

Tora? That would be the queen of the virus?

One and the same. Nice girl. She puts a lot of energy into her work. No, no. Of

course, if you're afraid... Fear is the wise man's wake -up call. Let's you know

when you're in over your head. Hold on, hold on. You know, we could maybe slam a

lock on this thing and jam it back to its root.

Okay, I'm not a buddy.

Okay.

Let's do it.

Here we go.

It's okay, partner. There's no tech chip in there.

The only thing that can fry your brain out is Tora.

And when you get up to the virus, you throw your net.

Me? I throw the net?

Well, you're the one who's going to get closest to her.

Unless you're scared.

Hey, being right, I'm scared. You're scared?

I'm the one who's blind half blind.

Launch!

You got my money?

Yes.

And then some.

Hi.

Honey. Hey.

I thought you was in solitary.

What can I say? I got lonely.

Sit, Chet. Then you're making me nervous.

I did everything you asked me to.

Yes.

Yes, you did.

Your virus is quite a little rascal, huh, Gordon?

I just wanted to thank you in person.

Oh, well, you're welcome.

But there's little matter of your visit from that ex -cop, Cardigan.

Oh, that's no big deal.

I took care of him.

Very persistent man, Cardigan.

It concerns me that you're the only person alive who could help him stop the

virus.

I could get lost again. You know I can do that.

Yes, yes, yes, I know.

What's this?

Something to help you get lost.

Now, I want you to try very hard not to move at all.

Because if you do, that will send a thousand volts

right into your heart.

Shh.

Very still.

What have you got?

I've pulled up the coding for 30 of the most potent computer viruses that we

know of. A cross -check might give us some idea of the common variable.

The old needle in the haystack approach.

It's better than anything I've tried.

Okay, set to download.

Hello, Dr. Kittredge.

My powers have grown. I can override your computer with no more than a thud.

You have nothing to fear.

We're both scientists after all.

What do you want?

It's what you want.

The antidote to the virus.

That would be your escort arriving.

You will come to me. Then all your questions will be answered.

What if I refuse?

Kit Cardigan didn't get as full a dose as Wintergale did through his doggone.

But this won't drag on much longer.

Either you help me, or I'm quite confident she'll be dead before the day

over.

I can feel it. Something's coming.

It's her.

Going purple.

500 terabytes, full bandwidth.

All right, now we're getting some action.

Great. We put up maximum buffers to secure the nexus.

Marauders hit that, it's like slamming into the Great Wall without a helmet on.

It's John City up here.

I'm on your wing, tall girl.

Multiple buffers, vehicle.

why this powerful code in the sector could be the source.

I see it.

Pull me in.

All right, Jake, get ready.

Steady.

Steady, not too soon.

Get your net ready.

Steady. I got it.

The guitar is too strong!

Not much longer! Stay with it!

Urgent.

Jake, you didn't answer your vid phone.

What, did Beth can tell you to track me?

Jake, listen to me. I was just on the vid phone with Beth. There was a surge

the connection blotted out.

Well, couldn't you reconnect it?

She was already gone.

But the energy signature on the surge, it matches the one we have of Tora.

She was there with Beth?

That's not the worst of it. Jake, Sonny, and Corey escaped from prison.

When? Two hours ago. They found the prison doctor and a guard in a coma. Two

more with their necks broken.

Hey!

Thought be it for me.

Didn't mention the subject of plaid.

Nothing here.

She must have ducked out for something.

No, no, she wouldn't have done that. Not with the clock ticking away on the

virus. The hell would Tora want with Beth?

Tora wasn't the only person here.

Oh, boy.

I've seen these before.

A core used to use them.

Beth, they said.

What was the last call that he made right before a core killed him?

Cosmos.

Baskin's direct line.

Baskin's personal data files.

What are you, back on tech, Jake?

Because there's absolutely no way that I am sending my dogs back into Taurus

playground. Maybe Chesterton was calling Baskin for help. That's a lot of

maybes, Sid.

But it's not going to help us save Kate and Beth.

Do what the man says.

No, it can't happen, amigo. It can.

No. We jump in and out like a jackrabbit on nitro.

She can't find us.

Give me a 50 nanosecond window to pull his file out.

Okay, children, start a rope.

All right. Let's go. This time it's really going to cost you. How much?

It's going to be 5 ,000. Here we go.

5 ,000.

Yep.

He's got serious security on this.

I want to compare the history of Vasquez Financial Transactions with the data I

gave you on Sonny and Corey. I want to see if there's any overlap.

Okay, I'm going in.

Stop.

Look at this.

They were doing business?

Oh, dude.

That's what you're scanning. You've been doing too much tech.

Sonny made a run on Bascom's holdings three times.

Looks like he used insider information.

Cited, but never so much as a fine.

So he screwed Bascom over. Oh, yeah.

Then he used his juice to dodge the rep.

And now Bascom won't give in to Okori's games.

Okay, so it wasn't Bascom. But we know that Okori's got a money man. Yeah,

plenty of them around.

Yeah, but this is no garden variety.

This is somebody with global bucks.

I mean, somebody who shared Sonny's vision. Global.

Deutschmark.

Stuttgart.

Tremendous hands.

Drake. Come on. I mean, they could have met through the attorneys. Think about

it. It's the only connection we've got with Kate.

I can take it all.

Cosmo's data bank.

Europe.

Mexico. Japan.

Okori and Sands had mutual transactions in over two dozen different markets.

Deutschmarks and pesos and yen.

Oh, my.

Second rule.

No coincidence.

No coincidence.

Sentra, use your hospital access and see what number Bennett Sands gave out for

updates on Kate.

Sure, but... No, just do it. I need it now.

You think Kate found out about Sands' connection with Corey?

Yeah, I think that's why she called me.

I don't think she was really looking for Danny.

I think she just wanted to see if he was there, so they didn't hear it.

Jake, I've got it.

Sands here.

Mr. Sands, you asked me to call you the moment there was any change.

I think you better get over here right away.

I'm leaving right now.

Jake, I think it worked.

After the explosion on the boat, the one intended for my brother, I was brought

to a team of surgeons and cybernetic specialists.

They transferred my dying brain into this computer.

Designed for one purpose.

My immortality.

That's impossible.

I stand before you as living proof.

The mind lives in the computer with the power to reach out anywhere in the

matrix at the speed of light.

But only as a hologram.

Now I want more.

You were right, Doctor.

Without the human form, there can be no soul.

You have surpassed even your father in the field of artificial intelligence.

I want you to turn this sim into a living, breathing receptacle for my

consciousness.

Then I'll give you the antidote to the virus.

How much you love her, huh, Bennett?

Enough to let her die so you can stay in business with the Corey?

Sorry,

this isn't pee -wee wrestling.

Just tell me where Sonny is, and then we'll turn you over to the cops. You're

crazy. The freezer is sometimes your brain.

You couldn't make enough credits to leave away, huh? You had to go in

with a slimeball like a Corey? Sonny, he came to me for financing. He said we

could only make drinks. And you sacrificed Kate for that? I didn't know.

After three.

Then you're going to tell me where Corey is.

One. He'll kill me. Two.

There's an old generating station out in the zone.

One of my companies owns it.

Three.

You know, you don't have to come with me if you don't want to.

There's a kid that's going to need a full -time dad when this is over.

We'll make sure he has one.

Don't say anything, man. It's just going to cost you.

Jake, I want the police ready to back you up.

No, the cops' priority is to bring Sonny in to bring him in alive.

I can't promise any of that if I'm going to save Kate and Beth.

I want your word.

And you're going to trust me to keep it?

Yes, I am.

Then you have it.

Thank you.

Got the schematics?

Yeah. It's from the turn of the century, back when power was delivered by cable.

So it's got a full underground conduit.

We've got to keep our frequency open as long as we can.

Got it.

Let's do it.

The tricky part is the interface.

The Android central processor is a network of synthetic ganglia. It's much

closer to a human brain than a computer.

I knew you were brilliant.

We would have been interesting collaborators.

You said if I helped you... Oh, the antidote.

It's here.

Inside the computer.

Only I control it.

And after I bring your android body to life, how do I get it then? What's that,

Beth?

You're not talking about getting the antidote for the virus, are you?

Sonny, why don't you go outside and check on the perimeter's security?

You're disrupting us. Don't touch that.

My dear, if you think you're walking out of here with the antidote...

You've been slipping back through. Your sister and I have a deal. Not for the

antidote!

With the virus working only for us, we own the world. You and me.

I can't own what I can't feel.

Call him off, Tora.

I'm your only chance to ever feel human again, and if our deal doesn't stand,

I'm quitting right now.

I've encoded the antidote on that chip.

As long as I'm inside the computer, an energy shield will remain around the

chip. And it cannot be removed.

When my android body comes to life, it will be yours.

Continue, Doctor.

They've reached the generating station.

We've lost contact.

Taurus put out a frequency damping field.

They're on their own.

Did I happen to mention that the first word on my vocabulary power disk was

acrophobia? What, you afraid of heights and don't look down?

If I look up, I'll trip.

Well, then don't look up.

Just close your eyes and pray.

Wait!

I'll be okay.

Take care, Bill. You stay here.

I'll be back for you, buddy.

She's right over there, resting.

She was wonderful, Jake.

Your reflexes are slow, Cardigan.

Just like Kensington.

When he tried to call you for help.

I've adjusted the neural net as close as I can without a test.

This is the test. You better pray for success.

Now start the process.

Powering up the interface.

Make me live.

Of Jake.

The chip.

The computer.

We've got to shut this thing down.

I can't. It's still under computer control.

He's not going anywhere until I get my hands on that ship. The Antarctic energy

core is damaged.

No! The interface is building to another surge.

We'll be together again, Sunny. I can't control it.

This has to go back into the Matrix!

No!

I'm not going back!

I am where I want to be!

Sunny doesn't care if you're human or not, Cora. He'd like you just fine the

you were, locked up in the Matrix.

How about hate? She's fought for you for a long time, only you didn't know it.

You can't come between me and my sister.

That's always bothered me. When you sent her on that boat in your place, Eddie

Hermosillo only knew what you told him. So if he thought you were on that boat,

it's because you wanted him to.

Tara, let's get out of here.

What are you saying?

I'm saying your brother sent you on that ship as a decoy.

No. He used you, Tara, and he's still using you.

If you had any human soul, you'd know that. Tell him that's not true, Sonny.

Tara! Get the...

She wants to talk to you.

You look

great.

Lousy liar.

That's not saying much.

Your expectations of me have been hovering at ground zero lately.

You're just a little below ground zero.

Do you really want to know the truth?

Yeah, just about the way I've been feeling about you lately.

But I don't hate you anymore.

Well, I'm glad to see the progress.

Where do I stand now?

I don't know.

Maybe in a neutral corner?

Well, okay.

I guess that brings us down to Danny.

only his father.

Well, then never.

Well, I'm not letting go, Kate.

I don't want to let go.

I know, neither do I.

So what do we do?

What do you say we hop over the park?

Eat some pigeons.

But I thought you said there weren't any pigeons around.

Yeah, I did, didn't I?

Well, there's always hope.

I know what they mean.

I'm walking in the wasteland.

With a ghost in the machine.

There's a simulated sunset and dark light in my eyes.

The skies are filled with miracles and half of them are lies.

Are you reading or not? It's a fine night.

Are you ready or not for the light of day?

Are you reading or not? These are strange times.

And I don't want to live this way.

When you wake up from a nightmare.

And it's worse when you're awake.

There's no one you can turn to.

And there's nothing you can take. You better ask yourself.

Are you real or not?

It's a fine line.

Are you ready or not?

These are strange times.

And I don't want to live this way.