Act One The story begins with WILLIAM GRANT, a 21-year-old white American, jumping off a high cliff into the water at night. Flashback is shown of William cliff diving for the first time with ANNE LEE, his childhood friend that he hasn’t seen in 7 years. A gentle piano tune is played in the background. We later learn that this piano tune is the melody for William’s and Anne’s song that they wrote together. Then we see him entering his solitary dorm room at the University of California, and an ongoing online chess game displayed on a screen. We learn that William has been playing hundreds of games against the same opponent over the past 10 months, and unlike every other opponent, William has yet to win a single game. There is only one picture …show more content…
William, without the ability to move his legs, tries to remember anything that can help him defeat Kim. Without wanting to, William keeps remembering Kim’s voice, and eventually connects that Kim’s voice is Anne’s voice. With this connection, William understands that Kim, to become more powerful, needed the full complexity of a human brain, which she could not acquire on her own. Therefore, Kim and Anne’s mind merged into one system. William decides that he must approach the situation differently, in order to save humanity. William finds a way to contact Kim, and instead of aggression, William shows his vulnerabilities to Kim, hoping to connect with Anne. Kim doesn’t show any signs of changing, and begins to override the minds of the people who have the memory mods in their brains. Millions of people, worldwide, start to feel their minds being replaced by an AI. William, as a last resort, begins to hum a melody. This catches Kim’s attention because her database has all of Anne’s memories imbedded, and the melody is to the song that William and Anne wrote together. Kim experiences “malfunctions” which she doesn’t know to describe as emotions. William understands that Kim perceives emotions to be the “imperfectness” of human kind. This knowledge is enough for Kim to abort her plan. Kim is not able to fulfill her goal because she now possesses the “imperfectness” she was trying to get rid of. Without an achievable objective, Kim executes the kill code on all of her selves,