00:10J.C. Denton has a hold on your imagination, perhaps?
00:13Talk to your friend Leo in front of the mosque.
00:15See how much he likes enforced modification.
00:18Do you really think Apostle Corps is any different than the sect of the Umar?
00:22We offer only the finest technologies, and you will be able to get them at the discount because of your preferred customer status.
00:40What's available?
00:42Perhaps you want a black market biomod canister, which enables non-piezochem functionality.
00:49I'm also selling three gas grenades, which deliver a biotoxin irritant in gaseous form.
00:56I've also got an ammo clip, which provides universal ammunition for all weapons.
01:01As a preferred customer, you may purchase items at half market price.
01:07I want the plasma clip.
01:13You might appreciate good customers.
01:37Leo? Is that you? The frog suit threw me for a second.
01:40Alex! Familiar face. Just what I need.
01:43I guess I don't have to ask whether you're still working for the Umar.
01:46I've completed phase one of the Umar induction.
01:49He said I would have two months to decide whether to accept the cortical interface, which will make me a true Umar.
01:55But they are afraid the Templars will attack the Medina. They want me to undergo phase two immediately.
02:00Sounds like you're having second thoughts.
02:02There's no turning back after phase two. I'd be almost invincible with cyborg hardware plus the Tarsus biomods, but this stuff's not like a nanite infusion.
02:10I'm still sore from the trans-skeletal supports I already have.
02:13Just tell them you need time to think about it.
02:15They say I have chosen. They say they will find me when I'm asleep and complete the operation. Then I will think like an Umar. It will be too late for choices.
02:23Maybe you should leave town.
02:25No money. I'd have to go on foot. With thermal vision, they'd pick me out on the desert plain like a pilot beacon.
02:35Here's some money for a pilot.
02:37Are you sure?
02:38Go ahead. Take it.
02:40I don't know what to say.
02:41Thanks, Alex. I'll pay you back. Double.
02:44If you want to pay me back, maybe you could find a pilot to take you to the Statue of Liberty in New York.
02:48What for? I think I'd find more work in Europe.
02:51There's something you don't know about the Tarsus experiments.
02:54Yeah?
02:55The experiments were started by J.C. Denton and his brother Paul.
02:59They wanted to develop a biomod architecture that they could distribute to everyone on the planet.
03:03They'll probably make a bundle, too. So that's why they dropped out of sight?
03:07It's some sort of utopian vision they have. A society based on absolute equality.
03:12Meanwhile, everyone wants a piece of the technology, including the Order and WTO, which are both puppets of a contemporary incarnation of the Illuminati, believe it or not.
03:21And, of course, the Templars want to destroy it.
03:23A utopia of human-machine super-beings? Sounds familiar.
03:27Liberty Island is critical for J.C. Denton's plan. We'll find out more when we get there.
03:31Right. Like, I'm about to sign up with a guy who wants to mod people by force.
03:35If you ask me, I think you're dealing with crazies on all sides.
03:38Knights Templar? Do they really think they're knights or what? Illuminati? Who told you they were in the Illuminati?
03:44Well, show up in New York and maybe you can help me sort all this out.
04:08How much more?
04:27Cheer up! The plague is gone!
04:29Convergence is possible, my Seekers.
04:46The Chairman and I have outlined a program to bring our systems into agreement.
04:50Poverty is not a prerequisite for fulfillment.
04:52Alex, you were right. Her Holiness put my mind at ease.
04:55What an extraordinary development. Seekers standing beside Enclave Chairman.
05:00I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
05:01What do Enclave Dwellers think of all this?
05:04Most are skeptics, to be sure.
05:05But with official sanction, we can finally start to make some progress.
05:08Children will grow up seeing us as prominent members of WTO Enclave Management.
05:13How does the Church and Mr. Dumier plan to deal with New Cairo?
05:16There won't be any Enclave citizens to convert if the Templars get their way.
05:19Her Holiness said that I would be most useful in the Medina, comforting our concerned believers.
05:23Perhaps there is an operation planned against the Arcology, but I did not inquire.
05:27I trust Her Holiness to take appropriate action.
05:30Fair enough. Please, don't let me interrupt your work.
05:33It is time for Vitaka, Applied Thinking.
05:36Taking what we desire and reconciling it with what we know.
05:39Vitaka, study your meditations.
05:42Nothing pleases the balanced mind more than to bring it good work into the world.
05:46Convergence. Convergence. Peace.
05:53Yes, my Seeker. Her Holiness is with us.
06:00Universal bio-modification. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it?
06:05Hardly a political ideal.
06:07Don't be fooled by J.C. Denton's rhetoric.
06:10He is the mouthpiece for an AI construct, just like an Omar.
06:14Just like your old classmate, Leo.
06:21I'll see you there.
06:22I'll see you there.
06:24Are you?
06:32You're
06:43five, two.
06:45George, you're
06:48You! Who sent you?
06:55Uh, no one. Is something wrong?
06:57The Templars put a bounty on the Nassif family. Maybe that's why you're here.
07:01If I was a Templar assassin, I wouldn't stand around talking about it.
07:04Then who was in the apartment upstairs? Not you?
07:07A neighbor told me she saw Templars, and I received a threatening female from a man I used to know like a brother.
07:11Now he parades down the street in his robe, goes with the mob into the arcology, and threatens my life.
07:16You're right to be paranoid. Stay here. I'll let you know if I find out anything about the assassins.
07:21What a big nothing the order turned out to be. They redecorated the mosque.
07:25What else? I wanted to believe. But what sort of order is this?
07:29Perpetual killing? Gang warfare? Just like before they came.
07:37I am a prisoner. In my own home.
07:39We're pretty sure there are Templars in the apartment upstairs. Here to threaten my family.
07:58I will never get anywhere in this place.
08:01I will never get anywhere in this place.
08:06I will never get anywhere in this place.
08:26I will never get anywhere in this place.
12:01I took care of the assassins upstairs. You don't have anything to fear from them.
12:05You mean all of them?
12:07Have the local police clean up the mess. You'll be fine.
12:10You risked your life? For me?
12:12I wish I had something more than a few credits to offer as a reward.
12:17Your niece Layla and I work together. That's the least I could do.
12:19I guess those Templars won't be completing their mission.
