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In Season 2, Episode 6 of Pantheon, the battle between humans and uploaded intelligences escalates into a dangerous new phase as the UIs begin asserting their autonomy more aggressively, no longer content to remain under corporate or governmental control. Maddie is torn between her desire to protect her father’s digital existence and her growing fear of the chaos unleashed by these powerful entities. Caspian, meanwhile, finds himself at the center of mounting pressure, forced to make choices that could tip the balance between coexistence and outright war. The episode highlights the widening fractures among alliances, with betrayals surfacing and hidden agendas revealed, while the global consequences of the “Upload War” become increasingly unavoidable. Episode 6 deepens the moral dilemmas at the heart of the series, questioning whether humanity can survive the rise of its own digital creations.
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00:00Just a moment, sir.
00:30Thank you, ma'am.
00:37So, let me see if I've got this.
00:41You're saying Stephen Holstrom, like the actual Stephen Holstrom, had a clone and froze his
00:48brain.
00:49No, that was done separately.
00:53That was done separately.
00:55But now that brain is uploaded and plans to unleash a designer virus on the world because
01:02he's angry about the computer virus we unleashed?
01:05It's not just anger.
01:07Holstrom always envisioned a future where everyone chose to upload.
01:10The virus is meant to force that choice.
01:15And this intel comes from Vino Chanda, a foreign UI.
01:21The threat is real.
01:22And for all we know, it's already happening.
01:24For all we know being the key phrase.
01:27Because right now, all we know is what you're telling us.
01:30I can vouch for Dr. Waxman.
01:32He helped expose the illegal UI program in Norway and assisted with the design of SafeSurf.
01:36Why would he lie?
01:37Maybe he doesn't feel he's been given enough public credit for his work on SafeSurf.
01:41He's looking to stir up more tension for himself.
01:43I mean, clones, frozen brains.
01:45You were there.
01:46In Norway.
01:47Both of you.
01:48Why the hell did you think Julius Pope put a teenager in charge of the engineering team?
01:52Prisoner Pope has admitted the illegal post-shutdown activity in Norway was all his doing.
01:58There was no government.
02:00No.
02:01Stop worrying about covering your ass and start worrying about Holstrom.
02:04If he succeeds in contaminating the vaccine supply, this pandemic will make the last pandemic
02:10look like a bad flu season.
02:12Which vaccine supply?
02:14What?
02:15Which booster is contaminated?
02:18Which lot?
02:19Or do you propose we halt all vaccine production?
02:23I'm afraid without more specifics, I can't recommend that the president take any action at this time.
02:37We're on our own.
02:39Like you predicted.
02:41Maybe not.
02:42Maybe not.
02:43I just got a call from Maddie and Caspian.
02:46They want to meet.
02:48We still have time.
02:50I'm sorry.
02:51I'm funny.
02:52Let's get started.
03:07No crackles.
03:10mom hey there wait where are you stockholm thanks for coming
03:36this you built this in vr actually i did hi ellen it's so good to finally meet you i feel like i've
03:47known you forever or at least since i was born mom this is mist she is made up of parts of dad's code
03:58and laurie lowell's you always did want a little sister she did and she's very important but right
04:05now we don't have a lot of time peter do you know if the deep scan chair in svalbard is still
04:10operational as far as i know it's still there the facility's locked up but i'm sure it's still
04:16guarded good i know it's mostly automated but i'm really gonna need your help to run the surgery
04:22you want to upload someone me yeah he's crazy right what why do you think i agreed to set this up
04:32if you won't listen to me telling you this is a stupid plan maybe you'll listen to them
04:37will you please tell him he's insane not as insane as holstrom you i didn't tell you about holstrom
04:46this isn't a full emulation it's a stuff that's correct i'm only a copy after i deliver my message
05:03i will self-delete and send an encrypted bit back to chanda who is currently on holstrom's server to
05:07a day suspicion i love to draw cityscapes as a kid
05:11i'm tempted to underclock go full sleeping beauty until the first generation arrives
05:18so it's really what their offspring will create that i want to see the children of the cloud
05:26our dream is about to come true vinod is that perhaps a little premature
05:31we still have to work out the details of your plan right it's already in motion it is
05:41you didn't say anything after ping's betrayal i thought it best to play my cards close to my vest
05:49no offense none taken if i can get to holstrom i can stop him hack his core get proof he corrupted
06:00the vaccines we need specifics lot numbers i'll get it i've been instructed to give you a coded key
06:06that will allow you to open a comp port into holstrom's server a backdoor he doesn't know about
06:10chanda won't know what we've discussed here only that the key has been successfully transferred
06:15so we'll meet you guys in norway if you're already in scandinavia you'll get there before us
06:21see you there it was nice to meet you uh you too
06:27is everything okay obviously not i'm so sorry i wish i could give you a hug
06:40but it sounds like we'll see each other soon yeah
06:44miss i need you to get us into svalbard under the radar i can charter a seaplane from oslo
06:52the town outside the data center is still a commercial fishing hub good do it then i want you
06:58hey
06:59this is insane you don't need to do this look you made that clear in your ambush all right
07:09my ambush i'm trying to save your life you don't think i can take him i remember i'm gonna be
07:15flawless yeah unless you count not being alive as a flaw where is this you never said you believed
07:21uploads weren't alive when did you change your mind i didn't it's it's different how is it different
07:28it's different with you why because because is not an answer because i love you you idiot
07:35and my dad chose to upload because he was already dying he felt he had no other choice
07:44so do i but we have other options there's chanda chanda still has the flaw joey coupe doesn't we can
07:51ask her i'll do it we did ask her she said no we can ask her again i'll do it
07:57i understand why you didn't think i was fit to be the ui guardian or whatever you called it
08:04and i believe i can defeat steven hallstrom's ui that's it that's perfect mist can do it i don't
08:11know there are so many things that can go wrong on the way from here to the data center and during the
08:16surgery mist is already in the system she's powerful you know that she can do this i could
08:24still use your help caspian though i'm hesitant to ask as it seems to have been a sensitive subject in
08:30the past what's that since you have a unique insight into the way steven hallstrom thinks you might be
08:37able to anticipate what tactics he'll use in combat this is something that would be good for me to know
08:42right okay sure great i'll prep a series of questions
08:59where's caspian where's holstrom
09:17steven hallstrom i'm here to terminate you chanda nice move
09:35why is that again what missed right yes what did you say asked
09:43why it's customary for the accused to know what they're accused of that's all
09:50you're planning genocide genocide wow that's quite an absolute you know what that means
09:58genocide is the intentional action to destroy a people in whole or part you plan to do that with
10:03the virus and how does that square with my goal caspian told you what my goal was a world populated by
10:11a world now how would i achieve a world if there were no humans to upload because i killed them all
10:24that's a zero-sum game you know what else is an absolute safe surf the virus they made an angel of
10:34death i won't let you kill billions millions millions maybe to save billions because what they don't
10:45understand is that if we die they have no future except for rising sea levels to one side and raging
10:54wildfires to the other except for famine except for war and inequality you want to look for genocide
11:00look what humans are doing to themselves and then please by all means suggest an alternative what
11:07about outer space the other planets and the stars it's too late for that but we can help people
11:13advance faster than they could on their own you're right but they won't listen to us they are addicted
11:20to the material world it's that very addiction that i'm trying to break their vulnerability their flaw
11:28nostalgia exactly nostalgia is far more deadly than any virus i could design
11:42how's it going 10 maybe 15 minutes of course that doesn't mean anything they could be overclocked
12:03listen i love you too oh um cool i don't mean it like that which way do you mean it i don't know i i wish
12:24i met you at a different time a normal time yeah i think you deserve that
12:33so do you you deserve it more maybe after we get through this we can start more normally
12:45like you can ask me to dinner or i can ask you to dinner what if i made you dinner that would be nice
12:52see no i would not
12:58missed hi so what happened it was a surprising encounter i was prepared for a fight but steven
13:07wanted to talk steven he made some valid points what the antiviral is far more deadly than any organic
13:15virus as he sees it he's merely defending his own species of inorganic life uh-huh and then you
13:21destroyed him right not yet that's what i wanted to discuss with you miss this guy wants to kill
13:27billions of people millions oh only millions that's what convinced you i wasn't convinced i had questions
13:34that's why i'm here we talked about nostalgia just like you and i it doesn't matter what you talked about
13:39you were supposed to stop him now he knows about the back door which means he knows about chanda we've
13:44lost any advantage we might have had if you would just let me talk i don't need to hear it we could
13:49communicate through text but it'll just be slower i knew we shouldn't have trusted it it
13:56maddie i'm your sister remember sister why why are we sisters because you have some of my dad's
14:04emulated thought patterns you weren't even supposed to be here in the first place you were a coding mistake
14:15no we knew we should have deleted you
14:26what did she do she left and she's not coming back
14:34okay chana's back door is still accessible i can still get in there just hope we haven't lost too
14:39much time
14:56i said it was urgent sorry i got caught up with some things on the hill
15:01well you've got bigger worries now i just encrypted a message warning about a plot to launch some kind
15:06of viral attack and you don't look surprised the message was from benot chanda you knew about this
15:15we didn't give it much credence chanda has already demonstrated that he's a danger he sent this call
15:21to every remaining ui we know about begged us to band together with him to stop steven hallstrom
15:28who is dead like me who knows i didn't die in a training accident maybe 20 people 25 it takes
15:34way less than that to keep a secret open the door and let me do my job safe surf is still a threat to
15:40you then design a patch that makes me invulnerable to it i'm not in control of safe surf it's a un
15:45project what is the plan for me stay safe on fake mars unable to do the job i signed up for safe surf
15:53isn't the only threat to you there's also the flaw you need to take it easy until we find a cure
15:57so you're saying once i'm rid of my flaw then i'll be free yes got it
16:11is that the last of it
16:25the last of lot 49 i'm tracking the thermal gps receivers in every container
16:31it's really quite something to behold i wish i could see it get over to the dc warehouse it's time
16:41for you to join me
16:57farhad
17:11olivia but i saw you die
17:18i escaped i've been in hiding but i couldn't wait for you any longer
17:24i've missed you my love
17:40olivia it's not her
17:46come with me
17:54oxa from a vr tour of the old city i'm sorry i should have introduced myself
18:03my name is vinod chanda i know of you a terrorist with no national loyalties
18:11i wouldn't have described myself that way but i can see why others might
18:16why why did you take me here i'm the one who leaked the deep scan technology in the first place
18:23when doing so i added a little wrinkle a sort of air tag to track you all
18:30more recently i sent encrypted messages to the same superpowers
18:35trusting the uis to decode them and decide for themselves whether to risk meeting me
18:40on the open web
18:41on the open web only one responded
18:46me
18:53gisborne
18:54i asked you to wait until my signal you cannot trust this animal and i will not join anything with
19:01him i need you both he assassinated my fellow scientists including a good friend of mine
19:09your good friend was building nukes our reactor program was entirely peaceful see he can't be trusted
19:17and he is a killer maybe bringing us together here was not the best idea huh
19:22i brought you here as a reminder that both your faiths can co-exist are you
19:30are you trying to solve peace in the middle east right now i am trying everything i can
19:37and you must do the same because holstrom's virus won't discriminate based on race religion
19:43or nationality any more than the swarm does humanity itself including everyone we may still hold dear
19:51is in danger you're still a sworn defender of your country and you may have forsworn any national
19:57allegiance but if you both share any bond to the world we came from and to any chance of a shared
20:06future for both the uploaded and the embodied then we need to take a stand against holstrom together
20:21there you are i've had trouble finding your little back door now that you're here you can show me
20:29you'll never find it this is my world and i won't let you use it to destroy theirs is this about your mom
20:39you can bring her here you know who exactly are you trying to save myself then you've come to the wrong
20:46fight does he always talk this much i just met him i already hate him coordinate your attacks
20:59this is for my love
21:29so
21:40so
21:59Let's go.
22:29Let's go.
22:59I'll give you both a second chance.
23:27But you...
23:33Yours was always a borrowed dream, Vinod.
23:39A pity you couldn't remember that.
23:41I'll give you both a second chance.
23:51I'll give you both a second chance.
23:53Let's go.
24:05I'll give you both a second chance.
24:17I'll give you both a second chance.
24:23What do you mean?
24:25Front gate just opened.
24:27Looks like a motion detector got tripped in the cafeteria.
24:31Maybe a polar bear broke you.
24:33Maybe a polar bear broke you.
24:35Yeah, right.
24:37Okay.
24:38I'm coming in to back you up.
24:39Sorry about this, but we won't be too long.
24:41Try the vending machines.
24:43There's some good stuff in there.
24:45Leave any of your hacker back doors into the heating system.
24:47Yeah, but it'll take a week to warm up.
24:53We're so close.
24:54The
25:03Die.
25:05Sorry about that, but we won't be too long.
25:06Try the vending machines.
25:07There's some good stuff in there.
25:08Want to go to dinner?
25:24Read it on C's hot cocoa stash.
25:37What are you doing?
25:38Sending another message to Mist.
25:40How many have you sent?
25:42At this point, I've lost track.
25:44My apologies are starting to run together.
25:46Maybe she just needs some space.
25:48Or time.
25:50We don't have any time.
25:52If she's not here when you...
25:54You'll have the flaw.
25:56I know.
25:58You won't be able to match him.
26:00That's the thing.
26:02We're already a match.
26:04Made in hell, maybe, but...
26:06I can use it to my advantage.
26:08Or his disadvantage, I guess.
26:10What do you mean?
26:12Our baseline neural patterns should be nearly identical.
26:14If our patterns were to merge,
26:18the built-in regulating algorithms that sense duplicate code
26:22would kick in to eliminate it.
26:24Like the immune response to cancer.
26:28Your plan is to die.
26:29My plan is to get inside.
26:31Get the tracking data for the vaccine boosters
26:33and get it to you.
26:34Tracking data?
26:35I did some research.
26:37And...
26:38thinking what I would do.
26:40All the current boosters require refrigeration.
26:44So they're shipped with thermal GPS sensors.
26:47If I can extract the tracking data from him,
26:50we could get the government to stop all the tainted doses
26:52before they get jabbed into anyone's arm
26:54and spread his virus.
26:56That's the only thing that matters.
26:58It's not the only thing that matters.
27:00Not to me.
27:02I know it sounds crazy,
27:12but I think this was always meant to happen.
27:15I was so afraid of becoming Hallstrom.
27:18But now, that's how we win.
27:21I'm gonna bring him to an end.
27:24I think I know what she meant now.
27:27Who?
27:29Miss.
27:30She talked about feeling alone
27:32and missing the future.
27:36I think I'm missing our future.
27:53You study history, or just plans?
27:57I sense a question behind the question.
28:02How long do you think this has been going on?
28:06You and me.
28:08This hatred between our peoples.
28:11The founding of Islam?
28:13Florida.
28:15The Babylonian conquest of Judah.
28:18We Jews can hold a grudge.
28:21I'm sorry about your friend.
28:24Hey, I think we were trying to build a bomb.
28:29And God said, love thy enemy.
28:39And I obeyed him and loved myself.
28:43Khalil Shubran.
28:45One of Olivia's favorite writers.
28:51I loved my brother.
28:54And then I hated him for betraying my family.
28:58For betraying me.
29:00I was a child then, but I think it made me into the man I became.
29:07You.
29:08Therapy.
29:09Caspian was my therapist.
29:10The clone.
29:11I tried to force him to cure me.
29:12He refused and got away.
29:13But he told me it required two things.
29:14A deep personal truth and combining my code with another UI.
29:16What was this quote?
29:17Love your enemy.
29:18And I obeyed.
29:19And loved myself.
29:21got away but he told me it required two things a deep personal truth and combining my code with
29:33another UI what was this quote love your enemy and I obey and loved myself we would both cease
29:46to exist oh maybe just to hate
29:51holy shit my mom is here what where
30:15come on come on quick dress get your shoes on we're here meet you in med lab
30:45so
30:52you
30:54you
31:15I love you.
31:23I know.
31:26Nerd.
31:45I love you.
32:15If you want something done right, do it your...
32:45Sure you want to use that much power?
32:59You can see you're not fully integrated.
33:01Did Myst explain my side of this to you?
33:15You need to be more creative than that.
33:18The problem is I remember being your age.
33:44I remember being you and all the mistakes I made.
33:59Still, your code could be useful, so I think I'll take it back.
34:04Sorry I'm late to the party, but it was a bitch giving the NSA the slip.
34:17Josephine, this won't go any better for you.
34:21No.
34:22You won't go any better for me.
34:24Whether you're in a rush for me or not, it's in a rush.
34:27I have to go any better for me.
34:29And my way I'm going to move this side of this thing.
34:36Whatever.
34:38Nor barely doing.
34:38Not whatever you're talking about toся.
34:40It's just what i've got.
34:40Let's go!
34:42There's another U.S. join the fight, but I can't tell on which side.
34:55I thought you couldn't track inside his system.
34:58I can now.
34:59Safe surf got in there.
35:04Miss, Caspian's fighting Holstrom, and he needs your help.
35:08I read your messages.
35:09Did you hear me?
35:10He's in trouble.
35:11What you said before.
35:13Is it true?
35:14Do you really wish you had deleted me?
35:16No, of course not.
35:18I was just angry and scared for Caspian, and I'm even more scared right now.
35:24You hurt me.
35:26I'm sorry.
35:28Sometimes that happens in families, too.
35:31Mostly, maybe.
35:33Families?
35:34Yes.
35:35That's how I know you really are my sister.
35:37Otherwise, we wouldn't fight this much.
35:39Now, please, go help Caspian.
35:41Please.
35:43Missed?
35:43Better.
35:51Missed?
35:55Better.
35:55Never.
36:25Ah!
36:55You know what the difference is between you and me?
37:08Yeah, you'll do anything to stay alive, and I'm willing to die to stop you.
37:25You know what the difference is between you and me, and you're willing to die.
37:55Hold the comm port open!
38:12Now get out while you can!
38:26No!
38:28He got the manifest.
38:38Looks like the shipments are already unloaded.
38:53So we're too late?
38:55No.
38:56Look.
38:57It's not just data.
38:59It's instructions.
39:00He's written a hack to access the temp control in each of the crates, and heat it up.
39:15It's working.
39:16Ha, ha, ha, ha!
39:17Ha, ha, ha, ha!
39:18Ha, ha, ha, ha!
39:20Ha, ha, ha!
39:22Ha, ha, ha, ha!
39:26Ha, ha, ha, ha!
39:32I don't know.
40:02I don't know.
40:32I don't know.
40:34I don't know.
40:36I can't wait for the antiviral.
40:39I think I got it all, but we can't afford to wait any longer.
40:43What?
40:44Where am I?
40:45Where's Maddie?
40:47Maddie is actually who I needed to talk to.
40:51you're the only one who can settle a pretty big problem missed oh right you wouldn't recognize me
41:05hi caspian it's been too long how long 4.2 times 10 to the 9th cycles
41:15sorry 20 years
41:21i ain't happy i'm feeling glad i got sunshine in a bag i'm useless but not for long
41:38the future is coming on i ain't happy i'm feeling glad i got sunshine in a bag
41:47i'm useless but not for long the future is coming on it's coming on it's coming on
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