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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 Paranoid, the best selling video

games in history. The company that started at Kevin Flynn's arcade in the

has faced years of corporate turmoil.

Can it find its way to the victory screen once again?

It's a sister act for ENCOM.

Even Jess Kim takes 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 appointed new CEO Julian

about 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 ENCOM, 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

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

gets there first.

creator.

And who am I?

Not who.

What?

You are Dillinger Systems security software.

Programming Ares.

Defender of the grid.

You are master control.

Ares.

I am Master Control.

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, my God.

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 going to 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

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 world, 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 nominal.

Warning. Stand clear.

Outputting from Dillinger system server.

Raw material inflow initiated.

Two, one.

Transfer complete.

I present the Dillinger Systems Amphibious Rapid Response Tank.

The Dart.

Digitally modeled inside our server. Output using our patented laser

It's an M1 rifle gun. Two M240 machine guns. 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.

Eri is the ultimate soldier.

He needs no food, no water, shed no blood, and if by some miracle he is

down on the battlefield, I will simply make you another.

With all that sophisticated code, what makes you think you can contain it? I

assure you, General, the most advanced fail -take mechanisms and restriction

protocols are in place.

Ares is predictable, controllable, and fully aligned.

Satellite front with isotropic lift turning cyclonic. Predicted

.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

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.

It 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

being superseded by your only son.

It's a pleasure.

Unremarkable.

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

superseded. We... We call it giving birth.

Of course.

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

Oh, here we go.

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

alive for more than 25 minutes. 29.

Saving 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?

I think this is my 95th breakfast burrito, and honestly, I can't get

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.

Get out of here.

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

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

You know?

Hold on.

What do you mean?

Well, you found something?

I think so.

It's a line of code.

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

Wow.

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.

A -1.

Permanence code implemented.

Testing for asset stability beyond current 29 -minute barrier.

Go.

Ready when you are.

Okay.

It's all in the wrist, baby.

That never gets old.

Trial commenced. 29 minutes and counting down.

I'd save you that time.

Harry is the ultimate soldier.

If by some miracle he's struck down in the battlefield, I will simply make you

another.

Fully proprietary, 100%. Extendable.

The pain on?

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.

Got AJ for you again. Headed back.

Filter it to voicemail.

The old 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.

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?

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.

Our directive is clear.

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

That is five, four, three, two, one.

Space Paranoid's back!

Are you ready?

Put your hands together for ENCOM CTO AJ Stone!

Cowboy time.

raise a genius mother? I'm in!

Intention.

Initiate containment protocols and pull all network access.

We need a response now.

Initiate security protocol.

Let's save artificial intelligence for their lives. Are you comfortable with

this? Well, look, for every doomsday scenario, there's a medical

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 Panic City with the world.

This is crazy.

This is a technical difficulty. We'll be back.

Well done, Master Control.

Eat 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?

of 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 pits 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, A .J.? I mean, first Wonder Boy,

Flynn, now his successor.

Where is she, A .J.? 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

looking for the same thing you are.

And I know who my money's on.

You mean what's 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.

Am I here?

A brute force attack took down our servers during our big product launch in

years. Everything we built is melting down. You need to get back here right

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.

You just spoke to Dillinger?

He's looking for the code and he thinks you are too. We've got to 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.

Kevin Flynn, wherever the hell he is, has a big smile on his face.

Oh, crushed it.

No. When the barber comes in.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday, dear Ted.

Happy birthday.

Thank you.

And so our heroes venture off into the night.

Nothing but the clothes on their backs and 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.

Printing 8 -plugger.

Stage 1 is a pressure development.

You back in until after gun.

Stage 1 load is complete.

Transfer complete.

You have 29 minutes to bring me Eve, Tim.

Target identified.

Damn it, I'm awesome!

Intercepting now.

Eyes on the target.

entertainment.

Thank you.

Prepare the particle laser.

Time to move to plan B.

Yes sir.

Yeah, you want to play?

Master Control.

What do you want?

I want the code.

It's gone.

Program.

They're timing out.

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

Transfer of biological life form 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.

Billinger Systems 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 disk 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.

No, no, no, no, no.

Stop.

Athena is correct.

There's only one user whose directive we follow.

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, then delete the carrier.

Yes, sir.

Extracting the permanent scope would delete the carrier from the grid and

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 pep -tac 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.

Program dismissed.

Can I trust you?

It's a complicated question. How much time you got? 60 seconds. That's about

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 might 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 Demeter?

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.

We lost them in the grid, Pam.

Preparing the drone.

Delete Harry, and bring the user back to me.

I disobeyed my directive.

Which was?

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

Dillinger told you to delete me?

Hang on!

Where are they?

Scanning quadrants three and four.

Sector 18 clear.

Transfer portal.

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.

Heroing in on target.

Shut them down!

I can't help you, but I need something in return.

Told you I don't have the code.

You found it once, you can find it again.

So you can give it to Dillinger?

Not for Dillinger.

For me.

Do we have a deal?

So do we have a deal?

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

Target approaching transfer portal in 45 seconds.

Don't malfunction them offline.

Please stand clear.

Override not responding.

What is it? Who authorized this?

I heard this originated inside the grid.

Security protocol.

Julian. All agents report to transfer phase four immediately.

Clear the area.

Get everybody out of here. Authorized printing in progress.

Clear the central area.

Transfer complete.

Move it.

Well,

well, well. Just got double -crossed by my program.

It wants the permanence code. For itself.

Eve, is that the deal?

To get 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

of software.

28 minutes, 41 seconds.

Harry!

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!

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.

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.

So we can make it within... 26 minutes, 9 seconds.

Eve, your plan contains two major flaws.

Okay. One, ENCOM is 9 .2 miles away, given our present speed and some optimal

choice of vehicle. Two, we're going to 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 ENCOM in 15 minutes.

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

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

Hey, that's my car.

The Honda Civic 2 .0 four -cylinder with 138 horsepower.

Classic. Hey, that's my car.

That's my car.

I was thinking about the time you told your sister that you wished you never

relaunched Space Paranoids. Then you went on to say that you... Oh, my God,

course. You read all my texts.

Yeah, I 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?

Dish mode.

Number eight on the UK singles chart, 1982.

I find their brand of pithy, catchy, timeless, and true 80s electro -pop to

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

younger sister.

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

hand over the permanent 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.

Look at this guy.

Well, look who it is. Glad you could join us, Ms. 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 our badge right here.

His too?

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

We can start 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. Hey, 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... Yeah, he's not

human. Not human. He's made inside a GPU.

Okay, is this for the Christmas video?

Three minutes to de -resolution.

Can you work with that, Seth?

Yeah.

Don't need help, guys.

Okay.

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 and 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

permanent code is in there. So what should I expect?

If I were to guess, I 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

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.

Oh, 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.

Eerie, 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.

Time to get back to the crate. Leave him alone!

You're very persistent.

You use that.

She'll be back.

Eric, you can't get out.

Binary digit.

You're a bit... I'm looking for something. Can you help me find it?

Surrounded by the wide -scale destruction caused by tonight's brazen

let local residents stunt.

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

event. Authorities are remaining.

What if its authority was like one of us? What if it attacked?

What if it moved you?

What now?

What is this?

Where's my code?

Hey!

What are you doing? Who gave you this directive?

You do, sir.

What is this?

Warning.

No, no, no, no, no, no. This is too big a thing. It's too big. Julian!

You're done.

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

control of the company.

No, you can't do that. You 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 great.

You only have to give one.

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 impediment.

clear.

Greetings, Brooklyn.

Not good.

Um, Eve?

What the hell happened to our office?

AJ, look, there's no time. The Dillinger's transported me inside their

reversing the direction of a particle laser. Not this one. Theirs. It's

impossible. No, a scary lady did it, man. She threw me. 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. He's such a super nice guy. Sorry. Right now, Ares is

inside Flynn's original server. He's looking for the permanence code. I have

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 security?

I'm Ares, master control of the Dillinger security grid.

Dillinger.

Hmm. Well, we both know you can't get here from there.

Then 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.

That's a landing.

That's a landing.

Hey, 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 the 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.

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 ought to be doing.

Back in the day when tech was young, I 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.

I 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 is 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...

Very good, man.

fully segmented zero -trust architecture, built to be totally

vertical, lateral, or hybrid attacks.

Damn it.

Can't get a connection, dude.

No luck here either.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Come on. A little closer.

Tally on hostile.

Confirm visual ID.

Engage. Fox 2 missile away.

Blast negative.

Missile intercepted. Be advised, enemy fighter escort inbound and moving fast.

Copy, Raven 1. Assess and report threat posture.

Sniper 1, tally multiple bandits.

Hostile intent confirmed.

Mayday! Mayday! I'm hit!

Sniper 1, punching out.

Oh my god, there's hundreds of them.

They're going after Eve.

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

save.

Enemy aircraft engaged.

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.

One is all I want.

You keep surprising me!

We'll do this from the ground then.

She must have gotten Eve.

We'll be back on the grid.

Seth?

Stop the clock.

No way. You're in?

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

Hey.

You came back.

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

The Dillinger Grid.

Aging in the sad space.

Go. No.

Aerith!

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 who she wants.

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

You had everything.

Go. No. The most advanced.

The most powerful.

And you gave it away.

For her?

Go!

This is the end for you.

Payload ready for transfer.

Shipping ads?

Hope you was right.

Alert. Unknown file incoming.

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

the grid?

We were given an order.

It is our purpose.

It's not

our

purpose.

It's our programming.

It's yet to be determined.

It's over.

There's no coming back.

And now, what is yours?

I'm not sure.

I guess we'll see.

...under intense scrutiny tonight as speculation grows around its potential

involvement in the series of 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 deployed to question the CEO, as well as his mother, and to

locate board members who have been questioned on their knowledge of the

situation. Meanwhile, the city remains in disarray. Emergency services 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.

The grid needs you.

It's funny, permanent.

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.

There is it.

Yeah.

So where are you going to go?

I have some ideas.

Incom is transforming industries and shaping lives in ways once thought

impossible. Thanks to the discovery of the Permanence Code, the company has

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

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

alternative fuels.

Incom.

In fact, innovation has always been in the heart of income.

In the 1980s, visionary Kevin Flynn imagined a future beyond games, a whole

into new digital frontiers.

Today, that vision is a reality.

Oh, I almost forgot.

Postcard. Who sends a postcard?

I don't know. I 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 100 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

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 in the other way.

There's no turning back.

Everything for a reason.

Everything for a reason. Everything for a reason. Everything for a reason.