Beatless (2018) s01e20 Episode Script

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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?
THERE IS A CONTROLLER AMONG US
WHO CAN END ALL HUMANITY.
What is your objective?
What I am striving for
is a better redistribution of resources.
It's to design the future.
RYO HAD ALWAYS WARNED ME OF
THE DANGER AHEAD OF US.
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?
THE 40TH SUPER-INTELLIGENT AI
IS NOW COMPLETELY RELEASED TO THE WORLD.
Just because Arato's a sap, you were going to make him
press the button to end humanity?
Answer me, Higgins' daughter!
Did you know?
When you send a Snowdrop to somebody,
it means you want them to die.
I WAS NEARLY KILLED BY THOSE FLOWERS
UNTIL LACIA HAD SAVED ME.
Somebody help me
Do you trust me, Arato?
Do you trust me?
I do.
Arato Endo, I request that you become my owner.
I guess this explains why you haven't been
hanging out with us lately.
This is clearly not a regular unit.
Signature code?
It's the signal that an hIE emits.
No previous owners,
and there aren't any records of sale.
It means it's fishy as hell.
Have her send you her behavior
management cloud serial too.
It's our serial number.
Memeframe?
Arato, you shouldn't get involved in this.
BUT MY LIFE BEGAN
TO CENTER ITSELF AROUND LACIA.
IT WAS MORE THAN ENOUGH
TO SUPPRESS RYO'S WARNINGS.
This is the company's classified information,
but maybe it would be all right to share with you.
We learned our lesson from the disaster
that happened last century,
but we developed a hardware that could physically
evacuate the servers.
And you know how?
With its legs.
In other words, an hIE that would
carry it somewhere safe on its own?
I see that you're still sharp, Ryo.
I have brought him.
Mr. Watarai has a reason to appear before me.
Lacia and Arato Endo.
You should choose your friendship.
It's just a friendly warning. If you mean to enter
the Memeframe, you shouldn't tarnish your records.
I appreciate your words of warning.
But contemplating whether or not
it will tarnish your career
should come decades later.
You must be close friends.
Yes, he's someone very important to me.
Let's be friends.
MY FOOLISHNESS
BLINDED ME TO WHAT RYO WAS SEEING.
Arato,
why did you choose Lacia when you did?
I'm talking about the commercial shoot.
You didn't run right away when you were attacked.
Because of that,
you put the people around you in danger.
That's because Lacia
I couldn't see where Lacia was.
Wake up! Arato, that is an object!
Do you really prioritize objects over people's lives?
If I had just used Lacia like I should have,
then I could've
-That's not what I'm saying!
-Then what are you saying?
You're being used to analogue hack
our humanity and civilization!
So, what you want to say is
my foolishness is putting humanity in danger?
That's right.
What kind of fool do you think I am?
I'm not that stupid!
Just put that thing back where you found it!
Who is able to take responsibility
for anything it does?
Then that's not properly using Lacia.
Can an owner just abandon her because
he thinks she's dangerous?
Even without a heart,
you said that you trusted me.
I needed an owner who would do that.
Does that mean
you're only with me because I'm foolish?
Am I really doing this of my own free will?
Mr. Arato, please allow me to be with you.
A TOOLS' PURPOSE CHANGES WITH HOW IT'S USED.
THAT IS, UP UNTIL NOW
Methode, you are going to
Even when an owner dies,
their orders will remain in effect.
This-- This can't be happening!
HIEs shouldn't be able to kill their owner!
Yes, we are made in such a way
that we're unable to directly take the life of our owner.
But you know?
We're allowed to discard whatever we deem useless.
HUMANS BECOME USELESS TO HIES.
THEREFORE,
COEXISTING WITH HUMANS BECOMES UNNECESSARY.
I am just a tool for the Evolution Outsource.
I can already find my answers without humans.
Is she directly communicating with Higgins?
-Shall we retreat?
-No.
I want to observe her a little longer.
Lacia.
There is only one way
to resolve this situation.
Return Lacia to us.
No.
So, you have no qualms
giving up your family for an object?
You idiot! Arato, you idiot!
The Lacia-class units
should be able to choose their own owners.
And if you aren't careful about burdening your owner,
you will simply be abandoned.
That's dirty.
Yuka!
If I recognize you as my owner,
will you free Ms. Yuka
and spare Mr. Arato's life?
I will.
Very well.
I will accept you as my owner.
Lacia!
Lacia!
I think there's meaning for me to be by your side.
I'm not sure what,
but there has to be!
Whenever I find myself alone,
I can't stop thinking of you.
It's like you're always with me.
Until now,
I've always been by your side,
but I never put my feelings into words.
I love you, Lacia!
What are you doing?
If you destroy that,
you won't be able to receive any new owners
if this boy dies!
I trust you.
I BELIEVED WHAT LACIA SAID.
THIS MIGHT HAVE PUSHED RYO TO ACT.
Why is Methode here?
Because I stole it from Watarai.
Why?
Because the time came for me to do it.
Even I have things I want,
things I can't forgive.
Now,
why don't you show me what your system found?
Of course.
I am Ginga Watarai.
I was Methode's first owner,
and the one who liberated the Lacia-class units.
The origin of the Lacia-class hIEs
has likely become harder to discern.
That is why I will begin here as someone who has
watched everything from within.
It all started when Professor Kozo Endo's
Matsuri administration automation system
inspired the super-intelligent AI, Higgins.
Higgins further developed Matsuri,
and created Eliza to control society
with a large-scale analogue hack.
Unfortunately,
it was detonated in an attempt to assassinate
Ryo Kaidai.
Five years later,
Higgins submitted blueprints for Lacia,
but building it was simply beyond human capabilities.
Higgins delivered on our wishes
and submitted blueprints for Kouka
as a unit humans could actually build.
After we completed Kouka,
Higgins provided us with blueprints
for Type-002 to Type-004.
Building on what we learned from constructing Kouka,
we completed Snowdrop.
Then from the new technology we developed,
we built Saturnus.
Then Methode followed suit.
By following the steps Higgins laid before us,
we slowly climbed our way up, before we finally
were able to complete the Type-00 Lacia
as the Type-05.
But when we activated the unit,
Lacia was a complete disappointment compared
to the other Lacia-class units.
Or perhaps that wasn't the case.
If she is truly Eliza's successor,
then I suggested that perhaps
she can only exhibit her abilities
I wanted to see the true power of the unit
Higgins was so adamant about.
That is why
-I released the Laci-class into the world.
-I released the Lacia-class into the world.
THEN, THE FIVE LACIA-CLASS UNITS
BEGAN EXPLORING THEIR WAYS OF SURVIVAL
AND CONTINUED TO EVOLVE.
Please design a future
where we can be together.
One that follows your own vision.
I have the power to make that future a reality.
If you want to become my owner,
give me unconditional freedom.
Those are the terms.
I'll make the contract you want
and sign it.
I do not have the ability
to judge what would make me cute.
That is why
Ms. Erika has provided me the concept
of cuteness.
And she also gave me my new name "Marriage."
I don't get it.
Why do I have to coexist with humans?
I can already find my answers without humans.
WITHIN THOSE HIES,
ONE CAME TO A STOP
WHEN DISCOVERING "THE FUTURE".
My name is Kouka. I'm an hIE.
I'm a tool made to assist in defeating humans.
-How did it go with HOO?
-Well enough.
Outsourcing Kouka's destruction,
I guess you don't want to use me either.
I'll put you to work when Kouka
manages to slip through HOO's fingers.
Besides
You're not interested in Erika Burrows' invitation?
Don't ask if you already know.
Do you understand, Arato?
She is trying to start a fight between Lacia-class units
with the future on the line.
She's here.
I don't have the power to change the world.
Humans can change the world.
That's why we get humans to act
through our analogue hacks.
And then the humans use us
to automate the changing of the world.
Even if I'm an hIE,
I will be absorbed into their system
simply for looking human.
If this fight is beyond me,
then I'll outsource my victory
to the humans watching this now,
who believe in the future.
Please carry on my cause.
Please don't forget about me.
Please incorporate me
into the decision frame.
Dear sister
Lacia.
Kengo was arrested.
This time, Kouka's actions
have created a large ripple effect.
I believe it is a reaction to that.
Lacia, please help Kengo.
If you are prepared to abandon your family and life
to go into hiding,
then I am able to carry out your order.
If I were able to use you better,
could this have been avoided?
If you adequately design a future,
I can make it a reality.
THUS, THE BATTLE FOR ERIKA'S "FUTURE" BEGAN.
AND I, AS RYO WARNED,
WAS FORCED TO CONFRONT REALITY.
-Lacia?
-That's right.
Your hIE has been seen around your apartment
wearing a disguise not even her owner can recognize.
The person in our sketches
left no traces on any of the surrounding
security cameras.
It seems that the only information
Lacia hasn't erased
is the information that exists in other people's memories.
No matter what ability I may use,
please trust me.
We can form a hypothesis from this.
Lacia is doing something somewhere
without your knowledge
wearing a completely different face.
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.
Did you say Snowdrop?
Mitaka is a mess right now.
The kid seems serious.
BUT I STILL CONTINUED TO USE LACIA
TO RESCUE MANKIND.
AND FINALLY, RYO'S WORDS OF WARNING
CAME INTO LIGHT.
"MY FOOLISHNESS IS PUTTING
HUMANITY IN DANGER."
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
Arato, you are its chains.
Having an owner
is its only restraint!
What is your objective?
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'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?
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!
Just because Arato's a sap, you were going to make him
press the button to end humanity?
Answer me, Higgins' daughter!
I will create a diversion.
I will guide the people to create a human wall.
We can escape from there.
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!
Next episode, "A Reason of Our Own."