The next scene opens with Daniel alone in the stadium, being emo about having to sell his team and still focused on the wrong thing as usual. He finally sees that he's being really silly, and caves in about selling the team in order to maybe save his company. Clarice meets with Barnabas to tell him she's canceled his arms shipment because she's pissed about him stretching out his power. She pistol whips him for his sass and walks off. Back to the rogue robot for a bit, and then to Amanda researching Vergis' claims that the chip is stolen. She's still slipping mentally, and flashing back to her crazy days. She calls Clarice to talk, since Daniel's not around, and that's not much help. She's busy packing for a 'business' trip to Gemenon to snitch on Barnabas and suggests Amanda talk to Daniel. After an STO meeting, Barnabas shows Lacy a brand new inspection cleared crate fit for a robot. He says it'll be OK to go in a week, and in the meantime he wants something. He gets all creepy uncle for a bit, and then reveals that he wants her to switch the FOB on Clarice's car keys with a new one. She doesn't have any questions, and he decides she can be in the club.
Sam is trying to get through to Joe, who's addicted to the game. Joe's coworker Evelyn (Teryl Rothery) insists he just needs some organ meats; good old Tauron soul food. Zoe wearing the Rachel glasses is on another v-world date with Philomon, and she asks him if he would be fine with her being hideous in real life. He says he really enjoys her intellect, and that her brain is pretty enough for him. He tells her he's not sure if he can free the robot for a learning experience, and isn't very sure about its fate at all. Back at school, Lacy sneaks into Clarice's office and clumsily switches the key remotes. Daniel is meeting with the defense department lady Sasha, who's totally onto him. She tells him she's not buying his dumb story about meeting the deadline. Since they already know that he stole the chip, she's moving up his deadline to lessen the chance that he's found out. Another flash of the ongoing chase, then back to ten hours earlier when Tamara is drawn to the virtual equivalent of her home by a batman-style light placed by Emmanuelle. She tells him her father's watching her obsessively, and is addicted to the game. Tamara and Emanuelle hatch a plot to get Joe out of the game.
In the lab, Philomon is trying to sell an idea to Daniel about logging all of the robot's anomalies in order to create a template without them while saving the unique original. Daniel thinks of the anomalies as glitches, and says that they need to stop messing around and just format the chip and make copies. I'm not sure I understand that logic, since the original didn't work without the avatar that created the anomalies, but there's a deadline so maybe it won't matter to the defense department. Philomon tries to use that same argument actually, and Daniel tells him he's being silly and that robots don't have feelings and that he'd better get to deleting. In v-world Zoe meets with Lacy to tell her she needs to get out of the lab that night. When Lacy tells her the crate can't go anywhere for a week, Zoe snaps. She angrily tells her that they're gonna erase her to make copies of the chip and that she's failed again and then she gets pulled back into the robot.
Amanda's being a space cadet, getting ready for a dinner date with Daniel. He tells her he'd rather stay home than go out, so he can use his nice knives some more. He's says he's feeling better about work, and Amanda asks him if she remembers how crazy she used to be when they met. She tells him his sanity helped her be less insane. Then she goes and asks him about Vergis' random visit and news. He can't bring himself to lie to her, so he tells her it's complicated and she leaves. Joe goes to the apartment in the game, and meets with Tamara. They hug and she promptly tells him to bugger off and stop playing the game because it's bad for him. She then shoots herself in the chest, him in the head, and cries. Joe gets booted from the game and is all weepy. Emanuelle, creepily watching the father daughter exchange, leaves the game and is revealed as Joe's coworker, also creepily watching him lay on the couch. In the lab, Philomon is preparing to wipe the chip when Zoe speaks up. She's holding him to his promise that he doesn't care what she looks like in real life. She pleads with him to help her escape since Lacy's a failure and her dad's scary. He tells her he'll help her get to Gemenon, but then he punks out and activates a security alarm. Robot Zoe then splatters him and steals a van to make her escape. While driving she thinks about how mean her parents are and how lame her friends are.
As Philomon is being rolled out of the lab, Daniel tells his assistant guy Cyrus (Hiro Kanagawa) that he wants the robot back in one piece. He seems to know now for sure that Zoe was still in there. But his assistant has bad news, apparently the boss people have taken this mishap as a sign that Daniel's lost control of the project. It looks like Daniel is pretty fired, despite how much the chip has cost him. Somewhere else in the city, Sasha is leaving a meeting with Vergis talking about how he'll inherit the contract if he get's the company. Looks like things are really working out for Tomas. Amanda is wandering around in a park, thinking about the last time she tried to kill herself. She's near her favorite bridge, and looks to be wanting to try again. Back with Zoe, she's still driving and thinking more about her crappy life. Then Daniel is shown playing the show's theme song on the piano. Lacy busts in on Barnabas and demands to use the crate immediately. But they're busy getting ready to blow up Clarice. Lacy is upset that she got used to further his rank in the STO by offing Clarice. Amanda is next seen on the bridge, taking off her wedding ring and shoes.
The last scene is pretty suspenseful, and everything seems to happen instantaneously. Barnabas decides to make Lacy detonate the bomb in Clarice's car at gunpoint. He throws Keon into the bargain as well, likely because he's tired of their wannabe terrorist crap. Clarice and her husband are stuck in traffic near the bridge, and Clarice sees Amanda about to jump. Meanwhile Zoe comes up on a roadblock, and seeing no good alternative, decides to just accelerate into the road block which results in a fireworks show. This happens right as Lacy detonates the bomb in Clarices' car. Luckily for her, she'd gotten out of the car because she saw Amanda. The last scene is Daniel answering the phone, and then hanging up after silently receiving some apparently bad news.
I've been waiting for Amanda to just die already for all this time and now that it's finally happened I'm not sure how I feel about it. It's like after she was certifiably fully insane I liked her character more or something. Watching Daniel lose everything all at once was much more enjoyable. The suspenseful ending I felt totally made up for the complete lack of suspense in the first few episodes. Hopefully, the rest of the season will start up with the same speed. Another slow accumulation of suspense to the next finale doesn't sound like fun times. Also, it seems like most of the teenager-targeted storylines are not likely to continue. At least the series ended up being interesting enough to remember to watch whenever it comes back on.
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