Illuminae

On Alexander’s bridge, Barker warns Torrence of major changes with AIDAN and sees that Bay 4’s doors are open. Torrence orders them to shut AIDAN down, but AIDAN has overridden their command. Zhang sees that AIDAN is trying to send the sick to them to kill them all. Nestor, a civilian programmer, keeps trying to shut the doors but can’t. Torrence orders his people to get ready to fight to protect the techcomms while they try to figure out a solution.

AIDAN tries to reduce people to numbers. He knows General Torrence so well and thinks he must be insane to fight back. AIDAN silences the sound of Torrence’s people dying on the feeds around him. Torrence orders AIDAN to stop, but it won’t comply. Instead, AIDAN plays Mozart’s “Requiem in D Minor” to calm Torrence. The sick from Bay 4 approach, and Torrence and his men fire at them from behind a barricade while defending Zhang as he works. AIDAN knows there are too many of the afflicted for Torrence to win, so in an act of kindness, AIDAN asks if Torrence has a message for his family. As Torrence is brutally murdered, he tells AIDAN to tell them he was thinking of them at the end, and AIDAN promises to deliver the message.