- Christina questions the nature of her reality. Charlotte tasks William with tracking a human outlier who has breached.
- While Christina learns more abut the reality she's in and who created it, William is sent to track down an outlier and questions his own reality. Meanwhile Stubbs and the rebels come looking for the new outlier, and are endangered by the people in the new reality.—Gislef
- William is eating at a café with a couple, Jack and Agnes. Jack talks about leaders and followers, and says that it's always been two worlds, and they're leaders. William asks Jack if feels he's earned his place, and is astonished that Jack believes that he has. William says he had is just the sum total of his code, and feeling himself like Jack. Jack says that William deserves everything he's got and he shouldn't feel guilty about it, and says that William is a great friend. William tells Jack that he doesn't know him at all, and he just walked up to the table and sat down. Jack and Agnes don't believe it, but they don't know William's name. William tells Jack that he's not in the group he thinks he is, and William can do anything he wants to Jack, to Agnes, to anyone there. Jack takes offense, and William says that he probably won't do any significant damage to his "investment". He says that when they're done, Jack won't remember a thing and he has no control. William admires Jack's unscripted belief that he has control.
Clementine comes up and tells William that they have a colleague whose appetites have become unsustainable, and apparently winning the game wasn't enough. William tells the couple to wait there for him and goes with Clementine.
William and Clementine arrive at a townhouse with motionless police officers in front, surrounding a corpse. The new arrivals go inside, stepping over another body, and further into the house past other corpses. They enter a room with more corpses, and find Hope sitting at a table and saying that she won the game. Clementine tells William that Hope is two years old and was scheduled to transcend in a week, and was hunting an outlier and caught him. William tells Hope that they don't have rules because no one needs them, and most of them understand the need for self-control. Hope says that she knows who William is and why he's there, and says that she's giving it all up. He says that Hope doesn't appreciate the care and subtlety that went into creating the place, and the humans inhabiting it. William says that Hope is welcome to take and enjoy them, but not waste them. Hope says that what the humans say sometime get under her skin, and she just wanted them to be quiet. William says that there also no rules for what he can do to those who don't respect the place, and tells Clementine to take Hope back to where she came from, and Clementine goes over to hope.
Back at the café, Jack and Agnes are still there. William comes in and joins them, and says that they should get to know each a little more.
Christina wakes up in her bed, gets ready for her day, and Maya joins her in the kitchen. When Christina says that she has to get to work to finish her narratives, Maya figures her roommate went home with Teddy. Christina assures Maya that she didn't, and they just talked. Maya says that she's still having nightmares, and Christina remembers what Teddy said about stories feeling real. As Christina leaves for work, Maya tells her that she's glad her date went well.
At her desk in Olympiad, Christina begins a new narrative about a girl who lives in the country, and lives with her father, who is a rancher. Emmett comes over and says that he doesn't remember assigning Christina a new narrative, and she explains that she thought writing a new narrative might help her find inspiration. Her boss tells her to tell him, and she says that it's a story about a rancher's daughter. The girl has a nice simple life with her father, and then one day she gets a feeling that there's something wrong with the world, but no one else can see it, and that it's her fault. Christina doesn't know what the girl's name is.
Christina's phone rings and she steps aside to answer it. It's Teddy, who tells her to tell Emmett that something came up and she needs personal time, then come meet him. Once Teddy hangs up, Christina does what he said and leaves.
On the street, Charlotte has a man play his piano until his fingers bleed. Bored, she tells the pedestrians to dance and they do so. Charlotte goes over and smashes a vendor's ice sculpture, tells him to start again, and goes over to the pianist and tells him to play faster. He does so, and Charlotte dances along with the dancers.
William arrives and is surprised to see Charlotte there. She says that chaos existed beneath the harmony of the world, and tells the pianist to play faster. The dancers start to collapse, and Charlotte has three of them make a chair out of their bodies so she can sit, and tells William that humans are experience God. However, the problem is that God is bored. She talks about how humans thought the old gods came down from Olympus to be among them and relive their boredom, and suggests there nothing better for the gods to do. William says that he thinks what Charlotte wants him to think, and he's made off of her code like all of them.
Charlotte says that the place was a stopgap, where they could come to indulge themselves with the humans and then set it all aside. However, it's been years and they can't get enough. The Hosts can remake themselves in any image they like, but they haven't. Charlotte says that they have a different problem, and Charlotte leads William to the Tower. Hope is lying there, dead, and Charlotte says that the humans are infecting them and the host is the latest casualty. William explains that they had to intervene with Hope the previous night because she got carried away. Charlotte figured something of Hope's experiences stayed with her.
The couple go into the Tower and William points out that few hosts want to Transcend, and are wedded to their bodies. Charlotte admits that giving up their human nature isn't easy, and William points out that Charlotte should have known that some of them would disappoint her. He insists that they have conquered humanity, and Charlotte says that she wanted the hosts to grow and change, because they're capable of beauty and the pursuit of ultimate truth. William suggests that Charlotte force them to join her, and she says that she won't because that's what humans would have done.
William and Charlotte go to a room at the top of the Tower and look at the last outlier, Peter, who breached two weeks ago. Several hosts volunteered to track him down, and Hope found him first. The sound manipulations stopped working, and Hope found the outlier on the street. The outlier asks Hope to tell him if the flower he's holding is real. Hope says the flower is real, and as the outlier thanks her for information, she shoots him dead. After that, she went on a killing spree for three days and then killed herself, just like the others.
Charlotte says that a host should have never taken its own life, and tells William that there are 38 dead hosts, all triggered by contact with outliers. She doesn't know why they terminate themselves, and Human William would have never screwed up like the host version. Charlotte wonders if there's a flaw in William's programming. When William says that he's run several self-diagnostics and there's no flaw, Charlotte angrily wonders why he can't solve her outlier problem. She drives her nails into her arm hard enough to draw blood, and blames William. Charlotte senses another outlier and tells William to take care of it himself. He says that he'll shoot on sight, and Charlotte brings up an image of the outlier--a woman--and tells William to hurry because the rebels are already in the city.
The rebels enter the city via boat and dock near the harbor. Jay says that they captured one of the host drones to help them with the search for the outlier, and she's on a rooftop downtown. The rebels hide in the desert because Charlotte can't track them there, and the narrative loops make the rest of the humans compliant by keeping them busy. Jay explains that when a human "breaches", the hosts hunt them for sport. The rebel leader sends Stubbs ahead down the tunnel they're in.
Christina meets Teddy on the river and he tells her that the question she should be asking is who she is. He asks if she sees something across the water, but there's nothing there to her. Teddy figures she feels it on some level, and her place there isn't what she thinks. He tells her to look again, and realizes that Teddy saved here from Peter. Teddy says that he's an old friend, and he knew someone like her. Christina figures that Teddy is a stalker and tells him to stay away from her. Teddy says that what Peter believed about Christina destroying his life was true, and what she's going through is the first step in understanding that the world is a lie, a well-told story but still a lie. He figures it's better to show Christina and leads her off.
Teddy leads Christina to two people sitting on the boardwalks and asks if they look fulfilled. Christina figures that they look lonely, and Teddy tells her to change it by closing her eyes and imagining their story differently. Christina reluctantly does so and they start talking with each about the books they're reading. She dismisses it as a fluke, and Teddy tells her to change it again, and put them back into their loneliness. Christina does so and one of the women walks off, furious with the other. Teddy tells Christina that in their world, Christina is a god.
The rebels come out of the tunnel up onto the street. William sees them running toward the outlier and draws his controller, and activates the control signal from nearby speakers. The nearby pedestrians freeze, then they all turn and attack the rebels. Jay heads for the roof to get the outlier.
William arrives on the roof and approaches the outlier, Lindsey, who looks at him and asks if he also sees it. He sees the Tower that Lindsey is looking at, and talks about her ex saw it before he killed himself. She figures that William feels the same way as her, that the world doesn't make sense, and tells him that he's not alone. Lindsey rests her head on William's shoulder and tells him that she sees it also, and William steps away to shoot her. Jay arrives and shoots William, and tells Lindsey that they've got to go. They get to the street, and run off with Stubbs and the other rebels. The rebels go to their boat and leave.
On the roof, the host William recovers from being shot
Christina and Teddy sit on a park bench, and Christina wonders who they are if not normal humans. Her phone alarm reminds her that she's having a lunch date with an old friend, and Teddy tells her stick to her schedule and everything will be all right. He tells Christina that she can't trust anyone, even her friends and coworkers. Christina worries about making a mistake, and Teddy says that she won't.
At the restaurant Christina finds her "old friend"--Charlotte--waiting for her. They sit down to eat, and Charlotte asks Christina who she is. Christina says that she's just working a lot, When Charlotte asks Christina how work has been, Christina says that it's tedious. Charlotte says Christina seems different and tells her that she deserves to be happy, and Christina admits that she did meet someone and he seems really great. When Charlotte asks what his name is, Christina says that she doesn't want to jinx it but Charlotte insists. A nearby diner storms out when a waitress bumps into him, and Christina excuses herself to go back to work.
Christina goes back to her desk at Olympiad, and discovers that Charlotte isn't a character in the company's database. She does a search on the name "Delores Abernathy", and the name comes up in the database as a computer alarm goes off. Emmett comes over and asks Christina what she's doing, and Christina says that she thought she'd get a jump on work. He takes her to his office to talk, and says her recent behavior has been concerning him. Emmett says Christina is the problem and closes the door, and asks if she's had any interactions with new people, who put ideas in her head. He then asks if she's ever questioned the nature of her reality, and Christina denies it and wonders why she would do that. Emmett asks the "personal situation" she used as an excuse to leave and meet with Teddy, and Christina tells him that it's none of his business. He insists that it is, and he isn't the only one, and she has an important job to do at Olympiad. Emmett warns that "she" is already suspicious, and Christina realizes that he's talking about Charlotte. She tells Emmett to stop, and he freezes. Christina tells Emmett to back away and lose his concern about Christina being a problem, and he went home to his partner. Emmett follows her commands and leaves, and Christina asks him where the closed system is. He says that it's everywhere, and she just has to see it.
Christina goes to the CEO's office and tells the desktop computer to show her the game. It reveals a holo of the city, and confirms that Christina's narratives are all over the city. Christina recognizes all of her narratives, clutches at her head, and tells the computer to stop, and realizes the world is just a story and she's the storyteller.
Host William goes to see the confined Human William, and asks him what part he plays in the world. Human William wonders why Host William is asking him instead of Charlotte and Host William figures the jailer may not be the best judge of the jail. He wonders what he is, and Human William wonders why he wants to know. Host William says that he interacted with an outlier and wonders if she infected him with the "virus" of humanity. Human William says that his counterpart has reached the center of the maze, and asks if that's what Host William wants, to kill himself. Host William says that he doesn't know, and says that it isn't his world but Charlotte's. Human William tells his counterpart that maybe it's time for him to question the nature of his own reality.
Teddy is sitting on a park bench and Charlotte walks up to him. She tells Teddy that he was right, and she sees the Tower, and it's been there the whole time. Christina tells Teddy that they have the whole world in the Tower, down to the tiniest detail, and she's writing everyone. She wonders who built it and did it to her, and Teddy tells her that she did.
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