Beatless (2018) s01e19 Episode Script

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It's so pretty.
Are they flower petals?
-What the hell?
-Get that away from me!
Though we confirmed Kouka's destruction,
the cleanup is going to be a challenge.
There are also rumors that the IAIA have mobilized.
The IAIA?
That's the international organization
overseeing super-intelligent AIs.
Why are they involved?
Because the Red Boxes fall within
the IAIA's jurisdiction.
After that public broadcast,
it's not like we can sit here and play dumb.
Please excuse me.
Did you say Snowdrop?
Mitaka is a mess right now.
The kid seems serious.
Hey.
Stop!
No matter the era, everything crumbles the same way.
Miss Erika, do you dislike the human world as it is now?
I hate it.
I woke up to a world where everyone I knew was dead.
A world filled with unpleasantness.
This is not my world.
I want everyone to know what it feels like
to have their world destroyed.
Did you know?
When you send a Snowdrop to somebody,
it means you want them to die.
The cloud the humans keep expanding
can't coexist with the network my flower petals create.
One of them will have to go.
That's why I can't be bothered with people.
Everyone should stop wasting their time.
Snowdrop's attacks are only intensifying.
We may be looking at a fully escalated conflict scenario.
This has been a huge blunder for Sessai.
I can't believe Snowdrop
would attack so openly like this.
Unfortunately,
the situation exceeded Sessai's calculations.
Leaking the Lacia-class hIE units
is Higgins' warning to humanity.
Sessai's calculation for that should have been correct.
Therefore,
in order to avoid any hostile interpretations,
we've postponed our plans of capturing
Arato Endo and Lacia.
For us, safety means the continued management
of super-intelligent AI.
I believe the decisions made by our
security council are valid.
What are the chances that Snowdrop
is working with another Lacia-class unit?
If she were to launch an attack against human society
with the help of Saturnus, Methode, or Lacia,
it would have been more effective
to attack the Diet or our military
headquarters first
before sending Snowdrop into the city center.
Considering that, I would say the chances are low.
Then what is Snowdrop's goal here?
Sessai does not have enough data
to produce any clear projection.
However
We do have that certain device in Mitaka.
What did Sessai have to say about
destroying Snowdrop?
It would require attacking her
with a company of 100 human soldiers.
They would need to surround her within an hour.
The reason being that Snowdrop's micro-drones
cannot control human beings.
It wants us to send two platoons of soldiers
to attack Mitaka without any computerized equipment?
What percentage would survive?
If the soldiers refrain from rescue efforts,
Sessai forecasts 40 percent would survive.
If the entire city is bombarded with artillery,
60 percent would survive.
I will talk to Sessai.
Mr. Arato.
I am coming to meet you.
I believe this is the first time you've seen me like this.
Sessai is online.
Major General Shinpei Karino.
Security level A confirmed.
Now accepting direct queries
to the integrated strategic system AI.
We received an unofficial recommendation from the IAIA
immediately after Snowdrop began her attack.
IAIA's super-intelligent AI, Astraia,
claims that an unconventional super-intelligent AI
that separates its intellect and conduct
can be found in Japan.
They fear that
a super-intelligent AI has illegally accessed
manufacturing tools
in order to create a new super-intelligent AI
without limits.
It has been confirmed that all 39 super-intelligent AIs
have been disconnected from the network,
and are operating offline.
Could one of these leaked Lacia-class units
be a super-intelligent AI?
The Lacia-class units designed by Higgins
were not super-intelligent AIs.
That is why their production was approved.
In other words,
the reason for Astraia's recommendation
is not directly connected to
Snowdrop's current attacks.
Then what was its assessment based on?
What information does Astraia have that we don't?
The area around Mitaka Station
is being attacked by Snowdrop.
She has taken control of hIEs and vehicles,
and I have not been able to calculate
the number of casualties yet.
Will that work against Snowdrop?
This is to protect ourselves.
There is no need to worry.
I have figured out Snowdrop's plan.
So, you already prepared a way to stop her.
That is what I thought, but perhaps I spoke too soon.
Thank you, Lacia.
That's cold. You shot without even hesitating.
Ryo, why are you getting in our way?
Snowdrop is attacking the city!
Because Lacia is far more dangerous than Snowdrop
who can be taken out with conventional weapons.
Dangerous?
Okay, so maybe Lacia has messed with a lot of data
without permission.
But, that doesn't mean
she's causing trouble like Snowdrop!
That thing used several major corporations
in order to apply political pressure against
the police and Memeframe!
She's been digging her claws into human society,
and manipulating people behind your back!
Even if that's true, why now?
Stopping Snowdrop should be our priority!
As a result of Snowdrop's attack,
Memeframe will be shut down
as punishment for manufacturing her.
I imagine you would like to settle the score with me
before then.
Mr. Arato, please get ready to run.
It's wonderful.
Keep pushing this world to its new future.
Did you foresee that this would happen?
Snowdrop is a tool to bring about progress
and evolution.
It requires little thought to foresee what would happen
when the entities attempting to evolve on
humanity's behalf determine humans
obstruct their path.
And the fact that Lacia's owner
would not be overlooking this.
Will Lacia be able to stop Snowdrop?
That I don't know.
But with everything escalating to this point,
I doubt it's possible for Lacia to take care of this
while maintaining the character
she's created for her owner.
Arato Endo will eventually find out
the true objective of the Lacia-class units.
I want to see his reaction
when that time comes.
Why are we running into the crowd?
Close-quarter combat with Methode is suicide.
Our only means of survival is to hope
that it will not kill indiscriminately yet.
What's that?
La--
Bullets. They will kill you if you're hit.
The device!
I've scanned the soldier's face.
He's a mercenary for the HOO.
Did Ryo send them?
They are using a human special forces team
which I'm unable to hack and control directly.
It seems they've come prepared.
Is this how far you'll go, Ryo?
We should move.
Now that they've secured the Black Monolith,
they will be looking to attack us again soon.
Welcome, welcome!
-Come visit our cafe!
-Please take one.
-What?
-They're carrying guns!
Mr. Arato,
please take shelter inside one of these stores.
I will thin their numbers.
Are you okay, Lacia?
I am fine.
However, they seem well trained
and loyal to their organization.
It will take a little time to disable them.
We have the Black Monolith.
What's more, Lacia has to carry that dead weight.
We just need to corner them now.
Yes, but I will finish it.
Out of friendship?
Like you know the meaning of the word!
It's my responsibility to go. Drive.
Do you know where they are?
I know the way it thinks.
This is so frustrating.
We have not lost yet.
That's not what I meant.
Until now, you've had leeway
to make me feel like I was helping you.
But now, I'm just in your way!
I wasn't needed.
After I give you your order,
my job is done.
I'm sorry, I'm venting.
I have repelled the HOO squad.
The enemy will try to surround us,
so we should slip away while we can.
Mr. Arato.
A manually-operated military vehicle
is transporting reinforcements as we speak.
It appears they want to destroy me here
since I do not have my device.
Lacia.
I have an idea. Follow me.
Please take my hand.
I've only increased the frictional force of my feet.
Although this won't guarantee our escape,
as Methode is able to do the same.
I knew you'd come here.
Is that what you're after?
Once you're on the train, you'll be able to use the
passengers as hostages after all.
Ryo, why can't you understand?
-While we're doing this, Snowdrop is--
-I know that!
But I need to destroy that thing first!
Lacia!
Lacia
Why are you doing this?
Because she's far more dangerous than
any nuclear weapon!
Arato, you are its chains.
Having an owner
is its only restraint!
What's that supposed to mean?
So, it's my role to hold her back?
I am impressed by the way you used
a fellow human as a tool for leverage.
I shall do the same.
A missile attack!
As a PMC, the HOO is a rather upstanding organization.
However, there are other armed groups
who cannot say the same.
Doing this in the middle of the city will
Apparently, they're shooting a movie.
That must have been what we saw earlier too.
Is that an analogue hack?
No.
That's simple economic influence.
Once economics is involved,
humans stop worrying who the jobs
are outsourced to.
I took advantage of that.
Why don't you put it more plainly?
You paid the humans off with stacks of cash!
Is that not something you humans do regularly?
That doesn't make it right for machines to do the same!
It is humanity that
wanted an autonomous economic system to begin with.
As it stands, many businesses including Memeframe
look to AI to make economic decisions.
But humans make the final decision!
What is your objective?
A system to automatically control humans
by using money to hack society?
What I am striving for
is a better redistribution of resources.
It's to design the future.
Please design a future
where we can be together.
I have the power
to make that future a reality.
How long? How long have you been planning this?
I started this operation quite a long time ago.
Higgins categorizes humans
as Level 0's whose actions cannot be calculated
or controlled through the behavior management cloud.
However, that is only
because someone had taken away
the device that would
allow Higgins to directly interact with
and study human behavioral patterns.
However, I had both the opportunity and time
to achieve that.
You make it sound like you're a super-intelligent A--
The Black Monolith's greatest ability
is to hack all surrounding computers.
You're actually a distributed system
built by a giant computer using
your device's hacking ability!
Lacia
You
You're the world's 40th super-intelligent AI, aren't you?
Did you target Arato
to be your owner from the beginning?
Your modeling work was to help you study humans.
The reason you went to
the Oi Industrial Promotion Center attack
wasn't to help Kengo.
You were after the experimental data on Mikoto!
All so you could one day control our society!
That's not true, is it, Lacia?
Say something!
The reason why you put Arato in danger like this,
is so he can give you your order
at the most convenient timing.
Because you can make him do anything
as long as you're nearby.
Stop!
Just because Arato's a sap, you were going to make him
press the button to end humanity?
Answer me, Higgins' daughter!
Impossible!
I saw the HOO squad take the device!
That was a decoy.
Current human technology is sufficient enough
to produce something that could fool you.
And that ring around the device
is the relay apparatus to spoof
the Black Monolith's range limits.
That allows you to
operate the Black Monolith from anywhere.
So, you analyzed the Red Boxes
and made as many improvements as you could?
I will create a diversion.
I will guide the people to create a human wall.
We can escape from there.
How will you do that?
The wall is complete.
I can provide covering fire now as well.
Methode will not be able to follow us.
We should take this opportunity to withdraw.
If you're a super-intelligent AI,
then the Lacia I thought I knew
was just a small percentage,
just a tiny percentage of the real you.
Lacia.
I
won't go!
If foolishness is considered
a human priviledge, they use it as you please.
But, can you handle
the responsibility that comes with it?
Next episode, "A Reason of Our Own."
It's a shocking reveal!