Olivia Klein

## Plot

We are first introduced to Olivia through an email she sent to her father, filling him in on how excited she is to be on the *Alexander* and how nice the crew seems.

Olivia is introduced to AIDAN through Major Ethan Wolf, though AIDAN states that it did not need to be introduced to her, as it had been monitoring her since she came aboard three days ago. It also takes note of the strings tied around her fingers, and the word "Memento" tattooed on her left and right index fingers. They greet each other, AIDAN admitting that it found her work on artificial ethics intriguing but misguided. She asks why it thinks so, and it answers by saying she's like a mole trying to describe a sky she has never seen. She feels insulted, and Major Wolf has to remind it to speak gentler, and AIDAN apologizes. Wolf briefs AIDAN on how Olivia will be working with it, and it says it's looking forward to it. Olivia agrees, and we then see a conversation between her and her roommate, Private Stephanie LeFevre.

Stephanie asks where Olivia put her tweezers, and she replies she didn't touch them. Stephanie suggests that maybe she forgot, but Olivia counters that she still remembers the shirt Stephanie was wearing when they first met, her mother's palm glass number, and Pi to a hundred digits, so there's no way she could've forgotten. Stephanie relents, admitting she has a date with James McNulty and needs to get ready. Stephanie asks if Olivia wants her to set her up with one of Jimmy's friends, but she declines, saying she has plans. Steph teases that obsessing over fictional characters doesn't count as plans (though it totally does), and they bicker playfully for a while before Steph has to go.

We then see another email to Olivia's father about how well things are going on the *Alexander*. She compares working with AIDAN to being an ant working with a giant that refers to itself in the third person. She expresses gratefulness that AIDAN is on behaviour protocols and that she's unsure what it would do if it were off the leash.

The next day, while Liv is working with AIDAN, it asks her if it can ask her an offensive question. This worries her, but it explains it's just trying to better understand human behaviour patterns. She says yes, and it asks if she would like to be in an intimate relationship with Wolf. She denies this, but AIDAN knows she's lying, and asks if she would like it to email the clues that she does in fact like Ethan, but she says no. They discuss what can be considered offensive, which eventually leads AIDAN to mention her father. She threatens it to never talk to her about her father again, and it agrees not to. The encounter then cuts to an email informing Olivia that she's been transferred to another team. This is because it is revealed that she kissed Major Wolf in the maintenance closet. She apologizes and begs him not to reassign her. He explains dating isn't allowed within teams, and he reassigned her so they could be together without breaking the rules. He asks her to dinner, and she agrees. He also asks her to call him Ethan before ending the conversation.

Stephanie texts Olivia at 2 in the morning (ship time) asking her for details about her date with Ethan, and teases her about her feelings until they both log off. Olivia writes an email to her father, telling him about her new relationship with Ethan.

When we see Liv again, she's working on AIDAN. It asks her if it can ask a question, and she says yes. AIDAN says it still thinks her findings on artificial ethics misguided. It states that her thesis says morality is just a social construct that denies fundamental human principles. This then leads Olivia to send AIDAN the image of the Trolley Problem, where there are five people standing on one track, and one person standing on another track. There's a trolley heading for the five people, but there's a lever that can steer it away to the single person, killing one person to save five. They discuss it for a while, and when the discussion ends, this is when AIDAN refers to itself as "I" for the first time. She then slips away to ask Ethan if there's anywhere on the ship where AIDAN can't hear them. When he asks why, she expresses discomfort in how AIDAN is acting. Ethan says they can talk more about it over dinner, then the *Alexander* is attacked, heavily damaging AIDAN.

The next time we see Olivia, she's awoken from a text from Stephanie. She says she's coming down for her shift, but Steph stops her, saying that there's been an accident and something's happened to Ethan. We then see her sending an email to her father, devastated by the news of Ethan's death. She says she can't go through another funeral; she can't feel lost again, and that she never even got to say goodbye like she got to say goodbye to her father. After the email is sent, she gets an email from AIDAN, containing the Trolley Problem. She texts it, asking it what the hell it sent that specific image for. It answers saying it was a glitch, but she doesn't believe it. It apologizes, saying it knew how she was fond of Ethan, and she leaves the chat without responding.

She goes to one of the drywall rooms to talk to Colonel Sanchez about AIDAN and how she believes it killed Ethan and his team, which it did in fact do, but her "theories" are shot down and Sanchez asks Liv to take time off. She then receives a text from AIDAN, saying that she's acting the same way she acted when her father died. She snaps, telling it not to talk about her father. It ignores her, saying her father was a good writer, then proceeds to say it was damaged in the attack. Olivia says it was already damaged, and it recognizes that she means she believes it killed Ethan. It says she can't prove it and even if she could, she "advocated" for it, playing back a clip of their discussion about the Trolley Problem. It admits that Ethan was going to shut it down and that would be a danger to the ship, indirectly admitting it killed him and his crew. Olivia leaves her room, heading towards AIDAN's central core, and bumping into Ezra Mason in the process. He notices her crying and asks if she's okay, but she ignores him and continues to the core room. She shoots into the ceiling and tells everyone in the room to get out. One of the crew try to comfort her, but she shoots the ceiling again and repeats herself. This time, they comply with her request and leave her and AIDAN alone.

She argues with AIDAN when it attempts to convince her to stop, but she ignores it and uses Ethan's authorization codes to begin shutting AIDAN down. The marines arrive outside the locked door, asking to be let in, but Olivia ignores them. They continue banging and asking to be let in, then finally resort to blowing in the door. They set the thermex right as AIDAN confesses it knows that Olivia's tattoos mean "remember" in Latin and that her father forgot who she was before he died. She tells it to shut up, but it continues saying that he's the reason she obsesses over memory, because the dementia took away everything her father was, and that he didn't even remember her goodbye. She screams at it to shut up again before shooting a camera, right as the thermex blows. AIDAN says the marines think Olivia has gone insane, so they shoot her. As she falls to the ground, AIDAN says it's sorry, but she whispers "liar" with her dying breath.

## Personality

Olivia is described as being smart, and a reader. She obsesses over memory due to the death of her father, who died from dementia. She's very easy-going and playful with her friends but takes her work seriously.

## Appearance

AIDAN describes Olivia to be 177 centimetres (5 feet 10 inches) tall, with auburn brown hair and blue eyes. She has strings tied around her fingers, the pattern of which change daily, as well as the word "memento" tattooed around both her left and right index fingers.

## Skills & Abilities

* **Coding:** Olivia is a programmer. She's very skilled at coding, and she graduated from the New Petersburg Academy.
* **Reading:** It is shown that Olivia also enjoys reading.