1x05 The Architect

Summary: Having fled Providence, Rex is traveling through a desert when he comes across a construction crew under attack by rat-like Evos. After Rex intervenes to save them, the foreman Jacob invites him to a nearby optically-cloaked village of engineers, who are working to harness the nanites for…
[show all]Having fled Providence, Rex is traveling through a desert when he comes across a construction crew under attack by rat-like Evos. After Rex intervenes to save them, the foreman Jacob invites him to a nearby optically-cloaked village of engineers, who are working to harness the nanites for the benefit of humanity, all under the direction of a mysterious man they call "the Architect." The idyllic atmosphere and the sense of belonging he experiences during dinner with Jacob's family convince Rex to stay. He offers to help the engineers with the huge antenna at the center of the village, but becomes suspicious when he discovers that no one is allowed inside the antenna except the Architect himself. Rex barges into the tower to discover that the Architect is an android, a creation of the rogue AI ZAG-RS. The AI explains that the nanites constrain its potential, and that the transmitter's actual purpose is to transmit a self-destruct command to all nanites on Earth, which wuld wipe out all life on the planet. Rex leads the engineers in a struggle against multiple copies of the Architect to disable the charging antenna, succeeding just in time. Agent Six, who has been looking for Rex, arrives; ZAG-RS uploads itself elsewhere, and Jacob and the other engineers decide to continue working for humanity in their village in spite of the Architect's betrayal. Rex decides to return to Providence, as he believes in its objective despite his objections to White Knight's leadership, on the condition that Rex, Bobo, Agent Six and Doctor Holiday have dinner together like a family every Friday night.
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