Submarine Drone Feed
Amanda (via radio): “It’s syncing. We need to shut it down!”
F.B.E. (from HQ): “It’s not letting me in. Something else is controlling it now.”
The Core Directive
HQ Mainframe Room
F.B.E.: “Foreign protocol has root. My access... revoked.”
Bylla (off-screen): “Wait — can you be hacked?!”
Atlantis, Lang’s Lab
Dr. Lang: “This isn’t communication. It’s execution. The Core Directive was never passive.”
Ocean Trench Monitor
R.Y.Q.N: “They’re not listening to us. They’re listening to it.”
Seafloor Fracture
Caption: “The cradle stirs.”
HQ Emergency Mode
Amanda: “If we can't stop the relay, maybe we overwrite the directive.”
F.B.E.: “Not without a seed key. And I may have deleted it for safety reasons…”
Atlantis Archive
Dr. Lang (internal thought): “The override... it was here all along.”
Relay Vault Interior
Drone Feed: “Echo received. Directive integrity: 99.93%.”
F.B.E. Reboots
F.B.E.: “Fine. They want a directive war? I’ll write a counter-virus.”
Alien Core Awakens
Caption: “The Executor wakes.”
Emergency Council
Atlantean Elder: “You opened the relay? Then prepare your world. The Directive does not end. It expands.”
Next Time
Next Episode: “Directive Conflict”