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STEM:
I told you Eron

is shutting me down.

- You must hurry.

- Okay. I would love to,

but our leg is not working.

STEM:
I am only operating

at 70% capacity.

So much for state-of-the-art.

[GRUNTS]

STEM:
Admin-bvxf,

[SHORTING OUT]

lowercase i...

[GREY PANTING]

[GRUNTS]

STEM [SHORTING OUT]:

The stairs.

There's not enough time.

[GRUNTS]

STEM [SHORTING OUT]:

Ask Jamie

for... for... for input guards

to be removed.

Input what?

[METAL CLINKING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

[WHIRRING]

[CHITTER NOISE]

GREY:
Okay, let me look

at my little book of hackers!

What do you want?

Apartment 514.

Seventh and Spring,

it's 10 minutes away.

He's at Seventh and Spring.

Goodbye, soldier.

You didn't deserve this.

- [GREY GRUNTING]

- STEM:
Turn left, Grey.

- Deploy a rootkit...

- [SYSTEM STUTTERING]

GREY:
System.

STEM:
Grey.

- [STEM POWERS DOWN]

- [GRUNTS]

[GROANS]

- [GRUNTS]

- [STEM STUTTERING]

[GRUNTS]

[PANTING]

Is Jamie there?

[GRUNTS]

I have money.

Sh*t, sh*t.

[GROANS]

[DOOR UNLOCKING]

GREY:

What I don't have is time.

JAMIE:
Paper money.

How old school.

They really do write God on it.

Uh, yeah, I guess they do.

Um, look, can you hack

a computer for me?

- JAMIE:
Which one?

- Uh, the one in my neck.

[DRAMATIC THEME PLAYING]

FISK:
I'm a little confused.

You just decided to stand by

while our friend

was tortured to death.

Hey.

I'm not here to babysit you

or your... your buddies.

Serving people like us

should be the highest honor

of your meaningless life, Manny.

MANNY:
Listen, Fisk.

Just leave.

I'll clean up your goddamn mess.

You'll get one shot.

FISK:
It's okay, my friend.

You don't have to take

any more bullets for me.

[SNEEZES]

Excuse me.

[SNIFFS]

[GRUNTING]

Let my superiority

over your kind

be the last thought

that crosses through your mind

before machines chew it up.

- [COUGHS]

- [THUDS]

[GLASS CLATTERS]

GREY:
Everything you need

is written on my arm.

Stem... that's the computer

that's controlling my body.

...he said for you to remove,

um, input, uh...

[THUDS]

Input guards?

Yeah. Yeah, those are the ones.

JAMIE:
I can barely read that.

- What are they doing?

- JAMIE:
VR.

GREY:
How long do they VR for?

Days.

Weeks.

- Do they sleep?

- JAMIE:
Nope.

Why someone would choose

to live in a fake world,

- I will never understand.

- [KEYBOARD CLACKING]

The fake world is a lot

less painful than the real one.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

I'm... I'm... I'm kind of

in a hurry.

Um...

Jamie?

- Jamie?

- That's not my name.

I don't have a name.

GREY:
Okay.

Please don't ask my gender.

- Yeah. I wasn't gonna do that.

- Good.

The thing is that I...

I'm gonna need you to this

as fast as possible, okay?

JAMIE:
You're the one

wasting time

putting me in a binary box.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

JAMIE:
I've never seen

a system like this before.

GREY:
Yeah.

It's a hell of a system.

Are we done yet?

I'll tell you when I'm finished.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

[EXHALES]

I did what you asked.

No more input guards.

GREY:
So, when am I gonna be

able to move my body again?

When your system's rebooted.

- Could take a while.

- What's a while?

- [BEEPING]

- GREY:
Wait, what do you mean?

Excuse me, hacker formerly known

as Jamie, what is a while?

What are you doing?

You packing up shop?

- Where are you going?

- JAMIE:
See ya.

GREY:
What you... what do you

mean see you? What...

What are you saying?

Where are you going?

You can't leave me like this.

I'm sorry.

We can't let them win.

No! Wait, who's them?

What are you talking about?

Who's them?!

[TIRES SCREECH]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

Hey, hey, buddy.

Buddy, can you hear me?

Hey, hey.

Stem, are you there?

Stem, wake up.

Come on!

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

[GREY GRUNTING]

[GRUNTING]

[ARM GUN C*CKS]

[GRUNTING]

Come on!

[GRUNTS]

[PANTING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

Wake up.

JEFFRIES:
Fifth floor.

Now, that's how you looked

when I saw you last.

- Stem?

- [ELECTRONIC TONE]

STEM:
It's good

to be back, Grey.

[GREY GRUNTS]

[GUNFIRE]

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

[GUN C*CKS]

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

STEM:
The door, to your left.

[GUNFIRE]

[GUNFIRE]

STEM:
Stop, Grey.

There is nowhere left to run.

Oops.

STEM:
I'm going

to end this quickly.

- GREY:
Okay. How?

- STEM:
Like this.

[GRUNTS]

[THUDS]

[METAL STAIRS CLANKING]

[DRONE BLADES WHIRRING]

[DRAMATIC THEME PLAYING]

[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

GREY:
Close door.

STEM:
Once I have accessed

the Cobolt database,

we must leave.

GREY:
No.

No. I'm not going anywhere.

I haven't slept in two days.

STEM:
Sleeping will

cost us time we don't have.

Yeah. I don't give a sh*t, okay?

- I'm sleeping, and that's it.

- [OBJECT CLICKS]

Oh, my God.

Hey, Mom.

And why wouldn't you tell me

about this operation?

Because I couldn't.

Vessel wouldn't let me.

And now that you know,

you can't tell anybody,

or it could all be taken away.

As far as the world

is concerned,

I'm still quadriplegic.

Take my hand.

Oh.

Now, you can start living again.

Aren't you happy?

Yeah. I can walk again.

So...

PAMELA:
Oh, if Asha was here,

she'd want you to be happy.

Yeah. But she's not.

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[RAIN POURING]

She's gone.

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

I printed a pizza.

[LAUGHS]

[GASPS]

STEM:
Bad dream.

No.

No. This... this...

this wasn't a dream.

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

PAMELA:
Grey, Detective Cortez

is here to see you.

Here he is.

I'll leave you two alone.

No. You can stay, Pam,

I'm cool with you hearing

whatever I have to say.

I was wondering

where you were last night.

We found your wheelchair

near another crime scene.

You just keep showing up

in these unsavory places.

STEM:
Tell her you followed

somebody into their building,

they assaulted you.

GREY:
I, uh, I did

a stupid thing last night.

I was down in New Crown,

you're right.

And I followed this guy

to a building,

and he didn't like that,

and if it wasn't

for these people

who got me to an Autotaxi,

I... I could have been dead.

What are you hoping to achieve?

I'm hoping to find these guys.

Maybe you already have.

Listen, detective.

If I could find these men,

and I could raise my arm,

and I could pull the trigger,

I'd do it.

Or you could find someone

to pull the trigger for you.

Like, who? My mom or...?

CORTEZ:
If you wanted

to find someone

or something to kill

for you these days,

it's pretty easy, believe me.

STEM:
Tell her to scan

your phone records.

Okay. Well, then scan

my phone records.

If you are involved

in this somehow,

then you need

to let me know, right now,

or else I can't help you.

GREY:
You wanna help me?

Then you go and find these guys

who killed Asha,

or get out of the way

and let some computer do it.

[CORTEZ SCOFFS]

Okay.

- [DOOR CLOSES]

- [ELECTRONIC WHIR]

This has to stop.

STEM:
What has to stop?

What I'm doing...

what... what we're doing.

STEM:
It's a simple algorithm,

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