Touch What's in Front of You

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**Touch What's in Front of You** is the eighth and final episode of *gen:LOCK* Season 2. It premiered on December 23rd, 2021, for HBO Max.

## Summary

As the Twilight Nanotech engulfs New York City as the Holon forces combat against the Nemesii; Miguel, Miranda, and Driana are stranded in a Nano-proof Strider in the field. They all hope Chase finds them soon as the battle outside their Strider rages on. Elsewhere, Cammie protects the vulnerable Gen:LOCK team members with a barrier and claims that Henry is the only one that can help them with their predicament. Her plan is to upload humanity's minds into the Gen:LOCK system, but Yaz refuses to accept the "insane" plan. The Twilight then starts to attack the barrier, as Yaz proclaims that she refuses to become a part of an embodiment of the Union and the same substance that took her parents away from her. On the other hand, Cammie argues what choice and humanity has at the moment, they cannot beat Twilight in their current state, but the death it wields. Furthermore, Cammie states that she realizes she's Union tech now, but she's also Polity tech as well. In her own words, Cammie isn't a symbol of one side of the war, but a symbol that brings both sides together. Dr. Weller also foresaw the age of man becoming machines as humanity's next evolutionary stage and she is concrete proof of that. Cammie has also been working on some tech that allows anyone to be compatible with Gen:LOCK and Val confirms it as Kazu was told about it. Continuing to listen to Cammie's explanation about the pros of humanity being uploaded into Gen:LOCK, Chase chimes in noting he doesn't want his sister to go through with it. Although Cammies argues that there isn't a choice to be had at the moment, Caliban announces the enemy forces that are arriving. Following Cammie's reassurance, Chase leaves the scene and Cammie lowers her barrier allowing Val and Yaz to become engulfed by the Twilight.

At the Union HQ, Brother Tate announces to all of the soldiers there that they're all worthy of ascending. He, however, will not ascend until all other souls are ascended into the hereafter and have become one. Tate then summons both Fatima and Brother Sugiyama as the former continues working on the Twilight code. She then runs the Coagulate//EXE program as the Union soldiers are unable to enter the room she's in. Back on the battlefield, Cammie finds the Strider Driana, Miranda, and Miguel are in and tries to protect it while soon getting help from the newly evolved Yaz and Val. The two of them assure that they'll protect the Strider as Cammie locates Chase in his Holon and informs him of the current situation. Promising to cover Cammie while she heads off to find Henry, Cammie manifests twin-nanotech chainsaws on both of Chase's Holon's arms and leaves while Nemesii surrounds him. Soon, Cammie locates Henry, however, finds his corpse and that all of his hard work to unlock Gen:LOCK was deleted. Meanwhile, Marin is informed by Able that Twilight was contained in New York for now. Marin, however, was distraught over the rapid loss of her holon troops and even more so when she learns that Odin was hacked and that Rob has escaped. The man in question manages to escape the base he was confined in and from the horizon the Polity's Hammer System. Returning to Chase who's at the mercy of a Nemesii, Cammie hacks into it and emancipates it only for it to wail in pain because of its existential crisis. Val and Yaz arrive at the scene with the Strider. Happy to see that Driana is alive, Cammie breaks the bad news that Henry is dead and that the Gen:LOCK program he was working on was deleted somehow. Driana then mentions that Rob tried to give people a third choice, which is "hope" and that gives Chase an epiphany to find Rob and ask for his help. Trying to figure a way to get in contact with Rob, Miranda suggests that they contact Marin despite her trying to kill her.

Marin is briefed by Able about the last bastion of holon forces arriving in New York with 181 minutes and will be destroyed within an hour of their arrival. Furthermore, Rob is still at large and is killing multiple guards. Frustrated over the sacrifices she made, Marin asks Holcroft if Henry was able to complete his work unlocking the Gen:LOCK program. However, Holcroft informs Marin that not only is Henry dead, but his Gen:LOCK research was completed and once it was received it was deleted on his end. Hence, even if people die from the Twilight, they can rescue them with their Un:LOCK. Relieved to hear this, Marin takes a sigh of relief, but is disheartened to hear from Holcroft that Un:LOCK will be behind a paywall. This leads to a moral debate between Holcroft and Marin as Rob surreptitiously kills the soldiers in the room. With Holcroft gone, Marin relieves herself from Holcroft's command only to be held hostage by Rob who threatens to kill her if she doesn't free the holon troops. Marin refuses to and so Rob slices her throat with the knife he had and at that moment, Miranda contacts Marin only for Rob to answer and then flee the scene.

Surprised that Rob cut the signal, the group considers their next plan of action, Caliban points out that the holon troops are shutting down. Cammie hacks into a holon mind and learns that its emotional system was reset and then a Nemesii kills it with its shank. Returning to her friends, she informs them that the holons were freed leaving Twilight to run ramped within New York City. On the contrary, the Twilight forms into a giant sphere, while grabbing and merging all of the holon and Nemesii into it. Brother Tate finds this out when he, accompanied by a couple of guards, breaks into the room where Dr. Fatima was locked in. Fatima warns Tate that she's programmed Twilight to coagulate because he broke his word. Furiously, Tate shoots at Fatima revealing that it was a mere hologram, but the real Fatima holding Mr. Cook shoots at the guards accompanying Tate and demands that he follow her.

The spherical Twilight descends onto the ground and forms into a grotesque beast that starts destroying the city. Left with no other options, the Gen:LOCK team infiltrate the Union HQ as Dr. Fatima holds Tate hostage. Chase is then projected into the Hub of the remaining Nemesii, he merges with them all and they proceed to attack the grotesque monster. It still, however, attacks the Union HQ, and while the Gen:LOCK team with Dr. Fatima and Mr. Cook escape. With Tate and some unconscious soldiers in its hand, Tate wonders what new opportunities await him in the hereafter only to be eaten by the monster. Sequentially, Rob arrives and uses Odin to bifurcate the monster, but not enough to kill it. Following Yaz's suggestion, the trio merges into a single giant entity that, with the combined efforts of Rob piloting Odin, defeats the monster.

Eventually, the group head back to the Polity base and back in his original body, Cammie ascends Chase allowing him to get a new body. Two days later, in Chase's old home in New York City, the group learns that Chase wants to stay there. Yaz plans to return to her remaining family in Babylon and Val volunteers to follow. Yaz offers Cammie to join them, but she politely declines as she intends to salvage what data she can from Henry's lab and deliver it to Holcroft. A neurotic, Driana then has a bit of an emotional breakdown noting how their city is an underwater cemetery. Chase then consoles his sister and tells her a story about after their dad died. It involved that their mom told him how death is just a seed of the future. Still, Driana is worried that mankind's future is becoming machines, but Chase reminds her to stay in the present and that how happy he is to be with her. To that, Driana cries and hugs Chase.

## Characters

Heroes

* Valentina Romanyszyn
* Kazu Iida (Mentioned)
* Cameron MacCloud
* Julian Chase
* Yasamin Madrani
* Rob Sinclair

Villains

* Brother Tate
* Fatima Jha
* Brother Sugiyama

Others

* Driana Chase
* Miguel Garza
* Miranda Worth
* Rufus Weller (Mentioned)
* Heng Li Wu
* Caliban
* Mr. Cook
* Able
* Raquel Marin
* Marc Holcroft
* Roberta Chase (Mentioned)