- Targeted synaptic pruning for the win...
and...unlock!
- Blast containment shields are descending.
Flee or die!
- Nugget, what's all this about?
- LOCK traitors have taken over the base.
- Get ready. - All good.
I know those guys. Okay then.
Back to work.
- Let's move! Move, move, move!
♪ ♪
- Blast containment shields are descending.
Flee or die! - Hey!
- Oh, my God. Now I feel terrible.
- Cammie. - Cammie.
- It me!
- What happened?
- I Ascended into the Flow.
I dunno know how I came back,
but I'm, like, made of the nano.
It's fuckin' awesome!
I'm...still learnin'.
- We're all so happy you're okay.
- Odin, activate.
♪ ♪
Fire Gungnir.
- Whoa! -
- Cammie!
We need to burrow.
- Major, come in.
Miranda?
Odin, obliterate them.
Chase! What is it?
- Come with me now.
Or your every waking moment will be a nightmare.
- Another blast and the shield's done.
- Cammie, tunnel to the Colorado Inferno.
The smoke will give us sky cover,
and we'll see if Odin can handle fire.
- We'll get his attention.
- They finally found Sinclair.
- That's Sinclair?! But he hates the Polity.
It doesn't make sense that he's working for them.
- Marin enslaved Sinclair in her Odin Unit
like she did with the Holon frames.
- If he's enslaved in there, we have to save him.
- Colorado Inferno in 10 klicks.
I'm not gonna break.
- What's wrong with Julian?
♪ ♪
Whoa! Oof. Whoa.
We must get to cover. Now!
Gotta get out there, help them.
- You're not in a state to be helpin'.
- She's right.
You were about to bomb RTASA with yourself inside.
- The hard drives were copies of us, need to be destroyed
so no one could ever make an army out of us again.
- But why did you need to die too?
- I can't let myself become like...him.
- Chase. I know things look hopeless, but they aren't.
I seen my fair share of the dark side a' things.
You are my proof people are worth fightin' for.
We'll help Val and Yaz. You've given so much.
You need to give all you have left to yourself.
- If I walk through the door,
I don't know if I'll ever come out.
- You will. Now go.
- Robert Sinclair.
Another Polity child,
turned into a weapon and aimed at our salvation.
The window on hope is closing.
- The Bronx seawall. -
- Ah! - Oh, my God!
- Another Deluge is here.
New York will vanish.
The HereAfter pleads with me.
I will not ignore her.
- You don't mean...
- The Polity attacks from the West,
Nature retaliates from the East.
Twilight beckons. Surely you see.
- Brother, don't let hubris
lead you to mistake our end with the end.
♪ ♪
- Bhagawan. We welcome you.
- What happened to choice?
- We made the right one for them.
- Sister, I, too, prayed for the luxury to proffer choice.
But the Polity broke the earth, left me no recourse.
Be grateful to witness the glory of the Kali Yuga
unfolding before us.
Within hours, Twilight will Ascend all of New York,
then unfurl like the golden flower
of eternal life
over the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa.
Within days, all of us will be one.
- You're right, Brother. Time is up.
- I must confer with my generals.
But please stay.
Cherish the view.
- We're burrowing up to draw aggro.
- Copy. We need the help.
- Can you get the door?
- Driving a small city is fun.
If we live, I'm gonna do it more often.
♪ ♪
- Pew, pew, motherfucker.
Phew. Wasn't sure that'd work.
♪ ♪
- Ah!
- You selfish Polity scum.
I found your little failsafe.
Disabled your code, locked you out.
- The Union commits genocide and you brag
about your accomplishments. The Polity would welcome you.
- You are mad.
- And you are an asshole.
I cannot believe that worked.
♪ ♪
- Ma? In the Union? What is this?
- The files I gave you, when our minds touched.
Mom and Dad had empty places too.
They filled those places for each other,
found the beauty that grows from different paths joining.
- I don't wanna watch this. It hurts.
- Running from grief is why you've got that empty place.
- I don't have time. My friends need me.
- In here, you have the time.
Don't let Mom and Dad's love for us go unremembered.
- Let it all in
before it's too late.
- Cammie, get up!
- I can't. Something's wrong.
- - Cammie?
What-- Okay, don't move.
No! Stop.
- What are you--
- That little mosquito is too goddamn fast for his guns.
- General Marin.
- Now is the worst possible time, Lieutenant.
- The Union has unleashed Twilight.
- I won't let those fanatics win.
All Holon frames to New York City!
Odin, burn that airship outta the goddamn sky!
I need you in New York!
- Cammie? You look...shinier!
Whoa, what happened to Migas?
- My nano accidentally took part of him to heal me.
- Just like the Smoke does.
Rad. - It was like a reflex.
- It was probably the nano's default survival protocol,
not you. Don't worry.
He's getting a bitchin' new bionic arm.
- So if I'm hurt, I'll just fuckin' eat
whoever's around me? How are you not horrified?
- It's fascinating!
- I need a breather.
And some help figuring things out.
♪ ♪
- Whoa! My bestie's all glowy. How neat.
- Cammie, what can we do for you?
- I'm so sorry to bother you.
I just wanted to talk to someone.
- Your return to individuated form is anomalous.
Only seen once before, in what the Union termed the "Miracle."
Uh, what do you remember?
- I--I remember Ascending.
The next memory I have is returning in the spot I left.
- Apologies, isolating variables.
94.78% likelihood the cause of your resubstantiation
- LOCK.
We are in Final Directive territory.
- That doesn't sound good.
- Ha! Oh, it's only final for me.
You see, Dr. Weller dedicated his life
to finding a better peace.
- LOCK was only one step in the journey to peace.
He created me, secreted away in Caliban--
- And took away my body!
- As a repository of research to that end.
But I'm also programmed to recognize developments
that enable humans to survive
the end of Earth's life-sustaining ecology.
With the discovery of this new evolutionary phase,
this archive is rendered superfluous.
Final Directive initiated.
Caliban, I apologize for restricting your freedom.
- It's about time!
- Dr. Weller, please.
- You're a fusion of Union and Polity technologies.
You are the path forward.
♪ ♪
- Val.
Val!
- I'm scared to Ascend.
I've died twice, and it was terrible.
I'll never see Ma again.
- Not in this life.
But you can be with the parts of her left in you.
She made peace with her fear.
It's why I wanted you to have my memories of her.
To show you how to do what she did,
because if you don't, you'll stay broken.
And we need you whole.
- Cammie.
Hell of a time to take a nap.
- The fuck is that? - The Twilight patch.
It leaves all patched nano
to feed.
- We have to stop it. - We can't.
It would take me months to come up with a hack.
And I'm the second smartest person alive.
- We may not need to hack it. - Henry, - LOCK is why
I was able to come back from the Flow, so maybe--
- Your mind already having been digitally decanted
is what allowed you to maintain cognitive cohesion.
You're the key to UnLock!
We can save ourselves, er, everyone!
I can use you to reverse engineer my Unlock gene-mod--
Hand!
- Sorry. Small version of Hammer System beams
broke your nano's molecular bonds.
If I work fast--
- Then work. I'll get us to New York.
That is too bad.
I was hoping to finally be done with all of this.
- I wasn't really joking.
I do not think I can fight anymore.
- Val! You're okay!
- Okay-ish. What is happening?
- We're adventuring! - We're ejecting.
Cammie, we're ready.
- The Polity will build an army using your soul,
and damn mankind to death
without our HereAfter. - He took away our choice.
Broke us, made us forget joy.
If you stop fighting me, and just let me in.
You don't have to be a copy.
- I can be the upgrade.
- Chase? Are you--
- I've had this scar a long time.
I'm just embracing it now.
- I knew you could do it.
- I felt you take back the steering.
Chase, are you--
- All there? - More than ever. You?
- New and improved, my man.
- Can we continue the love fest later?
'Cause we're seconds from crashing.
- Yes! Chase, let me mind-share our plan to you.
Do not object.
- This is all so exciting.
- We have to burrow or we're going to kill a lot of people.
- Woo-hoo! I did it!
- This is Twilight?
- Oh, my God.
This is way fuckin' worse than I thought.
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