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- I need new parts to fix the legs,
but we are nano-proof in here--
at least until it realizes there's meat inside.
- Chase had better find us quick.
- I don't care if he saves us or not, as long as he lives.
- They're all out there. They'll find us.
Work fast.
- Henry has to be our priority.
He's the only person who can crack UnLock in time.
He's key to saving everyone.
Provided I can upload all human consciousness
- LOCK neighborhood, which I think I can--
- Your plan is insane.
Even if UnLock will make the smoke
puke us all back out like you, I would rather die.
I refuse to become a living embodiment of the Union.
And I will not become fucking smoke itself.
It's the very thing that took my parents from me.
- But what choice do you have? Does humanity have?
We can't stop Twilight,
but we can beat the death it wields.
And you're right, it does turn you into Union nanotech.
But I'm not just that. I'm also Polity tech.
- LOCK is why I survived the process.
I'm not a symbol of one side of this war.
I'm a symbol of both sides coming together.
If it wasn't for Twilight,
we're on the brink of climate doom already.
The machine age of man is coming.
Dr. Weller believed moving beyond our old bodies
was our next evolutionary phase.
I'm a symbol of the deepest piece of Dr. Weller's dream,
and I've never felt so free.
I've been working on tech that would theoretically
allow anyone - LOCK.
- She has.
I know it because you told Kazu.
- People'll be confused, getting puked back into being.
But they'd come back like me.
And I'm amazing.
I promise you'll love it.
- I--I'm sorry.
Dri's the only family I have left.
I can't lose her again.
- Chase, without Henry,
it won't matter if you find her now.
She and everyone will still be as good as dead.
- Fighting is here!
Very here!
I can't wait to punch an intruder.
- Chase, stay here.
I'm nano now. I'm faster than you.
- But-- - I will find Henry.
And Dri, and Migas, and Miranda.
And I fuckin' swear to you I'll keep them safe.
All of them.
- Damn. When you put it like that...
All right. You got this.
- Your turn. Ready?
- I trust you, babe.
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- I know. It's okay.
I promise it won't hurt.
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- The old religions agree there would be a reckoning
when the worthy would ascend.
That time is here.
You are all worthy.
Sadly, I am fated not to ascend--
until the last soul is within the hereafter
and has become one.
Together. Together!
- Sister Jha and Brother Sugiyama.
Now they can rest. Bring them to rejoice with us.
- It's locked.
Brother Sugiyama?
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Does the tickling ever stop?
I can't tell if it feels great or terrible.
- Yeah, takes some getting used to.
- I can tell.
This is very new, and we're stretched a bit thin,
but we can handle this.
- Get Henry.
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- Chase, I found Dri. They're safe and together.
- Thank you. Now go save everyone.
I'll cover you.
- Right.
Hope that helps.
Henry, are you ready to save the world?
No, no, no!
Oh, my God.
Henry, what happened?
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- Twilight is contained to New York for now.
But reserves are depleting fast.
- Got any good news for me?
- You were right about Odin. Our system was hacked.
Sinclair has left his POD
and the soldiers guarding him are dead.
- Jesus. How is that good news?
- Because you were right.
- Find Sinclair. Now.
- Chase, we're in trouble.
I'm in trouble.
- Get out of my head. -
All is pain.
Who am I?
- I freed him, but the Union hurt him bad.
He's in a lot of pain--
pain I can't just recode away.
- Where has this power been my whole life?
- Can't believe it. You're all alive.
- Henry isn't. He's--he's dead.
And it doesn't make sense, but he deleted UnLock--
or the nano did, somehow.
But we have to find another way to save everyone.
- What other way? What can we do?
- The other way is the third way.
Sinclair was always saying how Polity and Union,
they say they're so different,
but they both make the same offer to everyone.
"Join us or die."
Sinclair's whole deal was he wanted to give people
a real choice.
He called it the third way.
- Pretty thought, but perhaps we philosophize later.
- Dri, that's it.
Sinclair is how we beat Twilight.
If the Holon frame guns are too small,
we just need a bigger gun.
- But when we freed Sinclair,
he downloaded back to the Anvil.
- So how do we get in touch with Sinclair?
- I'm Commlinked to Marin,
but she did just try to kill me, so...
- The last Holon frame forces will reach New York
in 181 minutes.
Analytics suggest they will be destroyed
within an hour of arrival.
At which point, containment will no longer be possible.
Sinclair remains at large and killing a lot of guards.
- I bent my conscience so hard, it broke.
And for what?
- Henry finished UnLock.
- We can save the world. But Henry's in RTASA.
What if the Union finds UnLock?
- We erased it on his end.
And then Twilight ate Henry so he can't spill any beans.
In the event you fail to stop Twilight,
we can churn people through UnLock.
We've not just outplayed the Union, General.
We've beaten death.
- It will all have been worth it.
- Sandburg is building a tiered price structure
that will keep from the onerous task
of determining who deserves to be--
- Are you fucking kidding?
You're going to paywall survival?
- We were charging for Mars and you had no problem with that.
- You told me the Polity would employ those
who couldn't afford tickets as workers.
What am I even saying?
You are so blind to your own stupid greed.
You just tried to defend it by reminding me
that you lied to the whole world!
- You're getting close to making me rethink my plan
to bring you to Geneva, promote you to--
- Enough!
Just leave me and go do your job--
saving yourself.
- You had better stop Twilight.
Or you'll find you are very much
not on the list of survivors.
- I'm done being Holcroft's attack dog.
I swear, I will free you the moment
Twilight is destroyed. I--
- Feeding orders to your slave army, General?
- No, I-- - No rationalizations.
You pretend the world is grey
so you can tell yourself your heart isn't black.
- Maybe so.
- Free them. Now. Or I will.
- I promise I will, but we can't yet.
The Union has a doomsday weap--
- No more lies! Do it!
- It's your burden. You alone know the weight--
- General Marin.
- She can't talk right now.
- Sinclair, we need you to upload back into Odin and--
- Talk later.
- Sinclair cut me off.
- Shit.
Well, there must be a way to operate Odin without Sinclair.
- HUBS are built with a digital signature
of the mind they link with.
It'd take me hours, maybe days, to hack the code.
- Friends. Is this battle protocol?
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- Someone freed the Holon frames.
- And without them to slow it's spread...
- Twilight just won.
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- You're too late.
I stopped you.
- Impossible. It is fate.
- You promised to use Twilight only when all hope was lost.
And you meant it then.
But I've seen war corrupt moral codes before,
watched as my husband rationalized
letting Marin - LOCK into a weapon.
So this time, I built a fail-safe
in case you broke your promise.
- Killing me will change nothing.
I restricted Twilight's movement protocols,
reprogrammed it to coagulate.
It's a sitting duck.
Fatima is long gone.
Now let us go upstairs so we can let the Polity know
Twilight is waiting to be destroyed.
- I would let you kill me
before I help you destroy the hereafter.
- You don't have the grace to be a martyr.
Now get up.
- This is our shot, but destroying that beast
will still take a lot of firepower we don't have.
- What about the Nemesii?
- I'm sorry, Chase.
I can hack them all free, but I have no way to heal them.
- I might.
I came together with a piece of one in my own mind
and it healed us both.
I think I can do the same with all of them.
- I'd have to remotely project you
into every Nemesis in New York.
I'd need a hub location with connection
to every one of them.
- That's how Marin controls the Holon frames in the Anvil.
Tate must have a similar set up here, but...
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- I think it's like us.
- LOCK preserved their consciousness
in the Nano when it swallowed them.
- Then why didn't it spit them back out like us?
- They didn't have physical bodies.
They had no form to return to, so they stayed inside Twilight,
infected the software.
- All right, then. Let's get to Union HQ.
- Order them out.
And get me on the satellite feed.
Now!
Oh, my God.
How can this be?
- I told you.
Fate.
I know now I can not die
until fate's plan for me has unfurled.
Rejoice, Sister Jha.
You are about to ascend.
Make us one, Twilight!
- Fool! It will consume you too.
- Oh, ye of little faith.
To stop me, you would have to do something
fate made you morally incapable of.
- It would appear fate gave me options.
What are you all doing here?
And what are you?
- Explanations later. We have a plan.
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- It's coming this way.
- Chase, I'm ready to project you into the HUBS.
I hope you're right.
- If not...
it was nice knowing you.
I know who you are. You are not a weapon.
You are Julian Chase.
And so am I.
And together, we can be free.
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- Hey, Twilight, over here!
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Where shall we continue our work?
- Holy hell.
Twilight's ugly.
- Sinclair needs help.
- Hey, Cammie,
you know how we're constantly trying to get you to understand
that the rest of us want boundaries?
- Yes. Why?
- Well, that gave me an idea for the opposite of that.
Is there any way we can, um, merge
so we can get big and help Sinclair?
- Maybe, but I need you
to clear your mind and let me in, completely.
♪ ♪
- You guys okay?
- It is disorienting, but yes.
- I have one suggestion, if I may.
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- So, did we win?
- I punched so very many things.
- Let's do this.
I forgot how it felt to breathe.
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Okay, I'm ready.
- Bro, what do you want?
- I have often wondered.
What does it feel like to be finite?
What? Was that question rude?
- Yes--or no. Sort of. It's--look.
Humans don't like being reminded they're gonna die
right in the middle of eating breakfast.
- Noted. New question.
Why? -
- Are you sure you wanna stay?
From the looks of things, you and Dri
will probably be the last living beings in New York
by the end of the week.
- I think she needs to let go of our old life
as badly as I did, and my heart tells me
it'll help her say goodbye to these walls
if she can breathe them in in order to breathe them out.
You know?
- I'm glad your old home was left standing.
It is easier, I think, to make amends with your past
when you can still reach out and touch it.
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Trust me. My parents--
- You should return to Babylon.
Say goodbye to your past too, babe.
- Babylon is my present.
I have cousins, aunts, uncles,
and with the Union now hopelessly outgunned,
I'm sure there's no higher priority
on Holcroft's target list.
- Then let us make sure your family survives what is coming.
- You would go with me?
- I already like your family better than mine,
and I haven't even met--oh.
- You want to come with?
They'll probably think we're gods.
- Being worshipped sounds fun and all,
but I've got other plans.
I'm gonna salvage what data I can from Henry's lab,
then I'm taking a one-way trip to Geneva to tell Holcroft
UnLock isn't a pipe dream.
Henry cracked it using me as the key.
I ain't no fan of the Polity,
but the human race needs every top scientific mind
in the world working on rebuilding UnLock
from whatever scraps I can find.
Because if New York is any indication,
the human race has even less time
to get the hell into tin cans than we thought.
- Chase, I can't wrap my mind around New York...
being over.
So much dying.
The things I did to get here--
- You did what you had to.
- For what?
New York is a fucking drowned cemetery!
- Remember how after Dad died,
I didn't get out of bed for a month?
Know what finally got me out of bed?
One night, Ma came into my room
and I crumpled into her and I screamed,
'cause I wasn't just sad.
I was pissed.
And I yelled at her about how Dad got erased
and we'll all be erased one day like we were never ever there,
so what's the point?
And she held me for a bit.
She said,
"Juju, death doesn't erase you.
"She shrinks you back into a seed
"like you were before you were born.
"And then she picks you up
and plants you in the garden where the future grows."
- But what kind of future is there now?
Earth's almost baked.
And we're all supposed to become, what?
Fucking machines?
- Maybe. I don't know yet, Dri.
- Well, what the hell do you know?
- Everything I need to know--
that I'm so full of happiness to have you back in my life,
right here, right now, in this moment,
that I feel like I'm gonna burst.
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