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even you can understand.

If you don't find

the last of them,

he'll find you and kill you.

No. We're... we're gonna

get caught, it's over.

- Grey, you must understand...

- No! No! Shut up.

- Get the f*** out of my head.

- [DEEP ELECTRONIC PULSE]

Stem?

STEM:
Yes, Grey?

What's going on?

STEM:
I'm not doing anything.

Why can't I move?

STEM:
Because I'm not

doing anything.

You are still a quadriplegic.

I am the one controlling

your limbs, not you.

If I cease to operate,

you cease to move.

GREY:
Remember,

you have to do

whatever I tell you to do.

STEM:
Remove input guards.

Those were the instructions

given to the hacker.

They took us off grid,

but they also gave me autonomy.

I no longer need

your permission to act.

If we do nothing,

Fisk will find us and kill us.

I cannot allow us to be killed.

We will find him first.

We are going to finish

the job we started.

PAMELA:
Grey,

please tell me what's going on.

STEM:
I'm in

the Cobolt database.

Fisk Brantner, recipient

of left-arm weapon transplant.

- I have an address.

- Grey, what's wrong?

PAMELA [OVER COMM]:

What have you done?

You come home,

you're covered in blood,

you think I didn't notice?

And you have a gun

and I can see that.

- STEM:
Let's go.

- I'm going.

PAMELA:
Where are you going?

Grey, please.

Whatever it is you're doing,

you don't have to do it.

I don't have a choice.

You do have a choice.

Stay here with me.

- I can't.

- PAMELA:
You can.

[CAR ENGINE REVVING]

[CAR ENGINE STARTS]

[CAR ENGINE REVVING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

- What's... what's this?

- STEM:
Going by its appearance,

it's an analogue

listening device,

most likely planted

by Detective Cortez.

[CAR ENGINE REVVING]

GREY [OVER COMM]:

How did you not notice this?

STEM:
It has

no digital parts inside it.

I can't detect it.

I assume that she's

following you right now.

Lights, sirens.

[SIRENS WAILING]

Okay, do something,

can't you just stop

her car or whatever?

STEM:
Her vehicle

is not electronic,

and neither is yours.

STEM:
You have to take over.

It's up to you now.

GREY:
Okay. Buckle up.

Yeah, I got you.

[CAR HORN BLARES]

- STEM:
Perhaps I can help.

- Okay. How?

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[GRUNTS]

What the f***?

Why are we stopping?

STEM:
May I borrow your car?

BUSINESSMAN:
Whoa! Stop!

Stop the car!

[POLICE SIREN BLARING]

- STEM:
Move, Grey.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

[PANTING]

[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[CAR ENGINE REVVING]

[DOOR OPENS]

KARA:
Emergency services

override.

Where is he?

- I don't know.

- CORTEZ:
Pam,

you need to start talking

and tell me what's

really going on.

[SIGHS]

[DRAMATIC THEME PLAYING]

[DOOR CREAKS OPEN]

GREY:
Nice place.

It's neat.

[GUN C*CKS]

GREY:
Put your hands up,

and don't turn around.

And don't extend that left arm.

What's the matter?

You have all

those computers inside you,

but they can't see me anymore.

Now you know what it feels like.

One day you're walking

down the street,

and you're thinking

about something

completely meaningless,

and all of a sudden,

you've got a gun

pointed at you.

And everything becomes

very meaningful.

Good speech.

Pretty scary stuff, dramatic.

I'm guessing that chip

in your brain wrote it,

since you're just

a dumbass mechanic.

Maybe, kind of hard

to tell anymore.

It's okay.

I used to be that too.

One more citizen

taking up oxygen.

Some a**hole hoping to breed

before I drop dead

so I could be remembered

by another a**hole.

Then they changed me.

I took a few pieces

of shrapnel for my country,

and they rewarded me

by turning me into a lab rat.

Now I'm like you.

I'm strong.

Yeah.

Takes a lot

of strength to murder

an innocent woman

in the streets, doesn't it?

FISK:
You think you hate me

because I shot your wife,

but your story

is the same as mine.

I didn't ruin your life.

I gave you a gift.

I inducted you into my race.

The Upgraded.

Now you're better

than everyone else.

Stronger, faster.

I could kill you

without moving a muscle.

I could kill you with a breath,

but I don't want to.

I wanna help you.

I want you to stand with us.

I just wanna know

why they paid you to kill her.

Man, you are persistent.

The job wasn't your wife.

GREY:
Bullshit.

You said it yourself,

you're one of Cobolt's lab rats.

FISK:
This had nothing

to do with Cobolt,

it came from someone else.

The job was you,

to sever your spine.

When I shot you in the neck,

did you think that was a gun?

It was a medical tool,

like they use for bovine.

Your wife? Well, she was just

a bit of extra money.

[GUNSHOT]

See? You're getting

all emotional,

never do that.

[FISK LAUGHING]

STEM:
Nanobots. Help, Grey.

STEM:
He's predicting

my every move.

I am unable

to effectively hit him.

[GRUNTS]

[PANTING]

No shame.

Stem.

STEM:
We have exhausted

all tactical options.

Still working

the bugs out, huh?

That's the problem

with new technology.

STEM:
Do something, Grey.

Goodbye.

Wait, Fisk Brantner.

Serk Brantner

was your brother.

How long did you have to carry

that junkie on your back?

Well, I solved

your problem for you.

Yeah, split him open.

It took forever

'cause he wailed

like a little baby.

He was no soldier that day.

[GRUNTS]

[GLASS SHATTERS]

STEM:
Thank you, Grey.

I'm not proud of that.

STEM:
He said you were a job,

that means someone paid him.

Check his phone.

I will scan his messages.

[MESSAGES SCANNING]

ERON:
Listen to me, Fisk,

he's going to find you.

You need to finish this

before he kills both of us.

STEM:
You know

what this means, Grey.

We're not finished yet.

[CAR ENGINE REVVING]

[DRAMATIC THEME PLAYING]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

GREY:
Eron!

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

The widget you spent

your entire life creating

is here to kill you now.

You killed my wife.

You wanted someone

for your f***ing experiment,

and then you paralyzed me,

and you murdered her

- while you were doing it.

- I swear on my life,

I have nothing to do with that.

Then why does the guy

who shot her

have a message from you

on his phone?

CORTEZ:
Freeze.

Hold it, Grey.

Throw the gun on the floor, now.

I'm not in control

of my body, detective,

it kind of does what it wants.

I am not f***ing around

with you, Grey.

Better do it, Stem.

Pretty agile

for a quadriplegic.

- Get on your knees.

- He's the one

who killed Asha, detective,

arrest him.

He's right there...

On your stomach.

Hands behind your head.

ERON:

No, don't touch him.

- [ELECTRONIC WHIR]

- [CORTEZ GRUNTS]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

- I'm sorry.

- [GRUNTING]

[SCREAMS]

Stem, not her.

STEM:
She wants to kill us.

No, I... I don't want to kill

her.

STEM:
I control

your hands, Grey.

No, don't.

Please! No... No!

STEM:
Don't fight me, Grey.

- [GRUNTS]

- STEM:
You have

a fragile human mind,

if you push against me,

it will break.

F*** you.

[SCREAMS]

Stop me, use the taser.

[TASER ZAPS]

[STEM SPEAKING GARBLED LANGUAGE]

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