"A Seat at the Table" - Reboot.exe - S1 Chapter 8.

## A Seat at the Table

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"A Seat at the Table" is the eight chapter of season 1 of Reboot.exe. It was released on 13 February 2021 and is narrated by Dave.

## Synopsis

Seb's father asks what Seb is doing back home. He claims that he just needs a few things from his study. He introduced Pr0 as Jacob to conceal his identity. Seb's father sees through this lie, but carries on, not mentioning it. He asks him to stay for his mother's sake, for wanting to see him again. They agree to potentially stay the night. Seb's father orders his drone named "Jeeves" to make a bed.

His father then gestures to a tablet that is open to his side that has several tabs open, showing Seb's previous locations throughout the city. He asks if Seb has found what he has been looking for - which Seb replies that he has not. Seb's father reassures him that he has infinite patience for him.

They turn to a vacant expression on Pr0's face, but then continues on to talk about how exciting things are for him and his mother. Things are getting closer and closer to the brink of everything they have worked for. His father then struggles to stand, and heads to his study, leaving Seb and Pr0 in the room alone.

After Seb's dad leaves the room, Pr0 falls to his knees, looking outside the window at the entirety of the city. Ignoring Eve's prods if he requires assistance. Eve asks if they can return to the slums to go assist the baby they came across previously. Jeeves returns, stating that the bed has been made ready, and offers to take Eve to a charging station and a deep clean for the night. She accepts, and leaves Seb and Pr0 to their skyline.

Seb's father returns with a few drones setting the table, and going over stock figures - which confirm that Seb's family is the second most wealthy presumable either in the country, or in the world.

Seb and Pr0 continue to Seb's study, where there are two large workspaces, with different decorations and supplies. Seb's glasses have been placed on the table.

Seb and Pr0 both agree to begin opening up to one another. Pr0 begins to answer the previously asked question, "what do you want most in the world" and explains that is is a someone, not something. A girl named Riley who Pr0 had admitting to doing wrong by. He isn't expecting her to forgive him, but still needs to get to her to free her at the very least. Pr0 clarifies that he wants forgiveness and a second chance for Riley.

After prodding to get Seb to open up more, Seb finally says that what he wants most in the world is Maya.

Jeeves meets them in the hallway, and guides Pr0 to the bathroom to get cleaned up. Jeeves then warns him in private that stealing from this family, and any vulgarity will not be tolerated while drying his hands for him.

It is revealed that Seb's father's name is Oscar Allen. During the course of dinner, he explains to Seb that he has been rigorously searching for Maya, but she simply hasn't turned up anywhere that they have looked - neither in surveillance or in person. Seb moves on from this conversation to bring up a business venture to negotiate with Oscar. Oscar begins to describe the people down in the slums, as Pr0 described "Zoo Animals." Oscar continues to explain that there isn't any defining qualities of the slummers, beyond their aggressive grind and will to live and succeed.

Seb announces the plan for the soup kitchen and how he is intending on changing and improving the lives of the slummers down there. Oscar tries to explain that Seb's plans may be in too large of a scope - stating that there are billions of slummers dying every single day just because there are too many of them, and his single soup kitchen may not have the large effect he is going after.

Oscar then describes his previously announced plan that he and his wife have been working on, and their ultimate want is to create better and better bespoke, like Seb.

Breaking the tension in the room, Seb's mother arrives in the room who is looking very beaten from her day's work, but lights up the second she sees Seb. She introduces herself as Nyla to Pr0, who introduces himself as Pr0, then as Jake, then as Pr0, and finally again as Jake.

Nyla announces that the Clements, Persia and Isaac, CEO of Reboot Corporation, will be coming over next week to discuss a recent scientific breakthrough. Nyla excitedly says that the AI has been stably preforming NuYou which will drop the price so more people will be able to access it - and "the right people won't have to buy it."

Out of character, Dave clarifies that Oscar and Nyla are the genius behind the Bespoke, and Persia and Isaac are behind Reboot - and that the family has been trying warp NuYou into something a bit different, and insert their wants for a new humanity - while phasing out the current humanity without geocide, but instead as nature would take its eventual course.

As their conversation winds down, Seb brings up his humanitarian venture to his parents. This leads to Oscar going on a bit of a drunk tangent, bringing up his friend when they were both very young. Oscar made Seb, and a bespoke for Nyla and Isaac as a sign of appreciation for working together. The other bespoke didn't turn out quite right - and was damaged in some ways. Oscar expresses that there was an ugliness within him. Oscar believes that he's perfected the process now.

Oscar then offers to give Seb 10 Million dollars. He believes that he can find her (being Maya.) Oscar reminds Seb that he doesn't have to keep these painful memories as the Gerard the Butler comes in and starts taking Oscar out of the room, and to his bedroom for the night.

Seb then leads drunk Pr0 back to the guest bedroom, where there is a day spa that Seb offers to help him relax. He refuses, and is instead lead to the bedroom for the night. Seb departs to his study, and Pr0 chooses the floor over the plush bed. Jeeves returns to fetch Eve, and place her on the charging station for the night.

Pr0 awakes in the middle of the night to cold robotic hands pressing him against the ground. Unable to get free - Pr0 feels a sharp prick in his arm, pressure, and then a scraping sensation in his arm. After getting free, Pr0 can see a house drone standing in the room, holding a vial of his blood that it then puts in a pouch. Pr0 follows the drone outside of the room, and calls for Seb. The drone lies, saying that Pr0 has suffered a psychotic break, and is lying about the situation. Seb doesn't believe this - and instead tries to get in contact with his parents after the drone refuses his orders. It gives a name for itself, Reggias. Seb turns around and goes to his parent's room. Jeeves recommends that he doesn't enter the room as his parents are "celebrating" their recent successes. Seb bangs on the door to get their attention. Oscar eventually arrives at the door wearing nothing but a dressing gown.

After demanding to look at the security cameras after Oscar refuses to listen to him - there is incorrect footage shown of Pr0 being in a drunk state, falling into a coffee table, and then attacking the drone that helped him. Seb exclaims that his security system has been severely compromised. Oscar doesn't believe Seb and is concerned that he is taking Pr0's word over his own, but still locks the drone room door for him, to insure nothing gets in or out of that door, including Eve.

Eve hears two voices in the drone room. Nyla is in the room and asks the drone to hand her the vial of blood and information it has gathered from Pr0. She calls a number, stating that she is sending over the blood sample, and wants to find a full family history and background check on him as she believes him to be a bad influence.

- YHTris

## TL;DR

* Seb's father, Oscar Allen, asks Seb if he has found what he's looking for - and Seb replies not yet. Oscar then reassures Seb that he will not give up on his goals, but hates to see his son in so much pain.
* As drones set the table, Oscar returns to a large market chat, confirming, and announcing that they are the second most wealthy family
* Seb takes Pr0 to his study, where Pr0 finally reveals that what he wants most in this world is forgiveness, and a second chance for Riley, a girl he admitted to doing wrong by in his past. Seb also says that he is searching for a woman, Maya, who has been missing for a very long time.
* After Seb's mother, Nyla, arrives home, Seb, Oscar, and her go over the excitement of their life long works having been achieved. They have successfully trained AI to preform NuYou for them, with the hopes of making it much more accessible and affordable.
* Nyla announces that Isaac, and Persia, the CEOs of Reboot Corporation will be joining them for dinner next week to discuss important plans on how to continue.
* Seb brings up his business venture in the slums to his father, who grants him 10 million dollars to get it going, and to find Maya. He is then escorted to bed.
* As Pr0 lies on the floor, in hopes of sleep, a drone appears over top of him, drawing a vial of blood, and scraping something against his skin. The drone refuses to answer to both Pr0 and Seb, stating that it is none of their business why it is doing what it is, and that it has been commanded by someone with more authority than either of them have.
* Seb rushes to his father's room, where Oscar simply doesn't believe what he has to say. He has them look at the security cameras, which are showing fabricated evidence of a different story happening. Oscar locks the drone room, and tells Seb they will deal with this in the morning.
* Eve, having being down in the drone room on the charging station, hears a conversation between Nyla and the drone that attacked Pr0, thanking it for gathering the evidence. Nyla then makes a phone call, asking whomever is on the other side to run a full family DNA test from this vial and get any information they can on him, and his family.

-YHT