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just happen to be wrong.

Evidently, Casey managed

to solve that dilemma.

He sent us his research

just before he was killed.

Soon as it's packed up,

we'll send it over.

I think you'll find that we'll

be helpful partners, Dr. Caster.

You all right, Will?

No, he needs rest. I

think we're done here.

- Mm. I'm so sorry.

- No, that's fine.

- Okay.

- Sorry.

Will, hey, hey.

Come on, sit up. Be careful.

Our first thought is

always infection.

But given the circumstances,

we'll widen the search.

We'll figure this out.

It's an isotope called polonium.

The bullet must have been laced with it.

There were traces of it in the wound.

Well, what's the treatment?

It's radiation poisoning.

I'm afraid that once it

enters the bloodstream...

the effect is irreversible.

With proper care we're

looking at four...

maybe five weeks, before

his system shuts down.

I'm right here.

It just doesn't make sense.

They're afraid of technology, because

of its threat to humanity...

yet they don't flinch

at taking a life.

So obviously they're

not big on logic.

But there's no shortage of irony.

People fear what they don't

understand. They always have.

Joseph sent over Casey's files.

He was decoding the

synapses in real time.

But with the right

input algorithms...

- I need to get back to the lab.

- Will...

is that really how you wanna spend

the last month of your life?

Hey, what are you doing?

I want to have all this

taken back to the office...

to tell Joseph...

that I've spent my entire

life in a computer lab...

and I've decided I'd rather

spend the rest of it with you.

Evelyn? Are you okay?

Yeah. Yeah, I suppose.

Look, he can't work anymore.

We're gonna shut it down.

I just wanted you to know.

Of course.

Well, don't worry about PINN.

Take care of Will.

And take care of yourself.

Thanks, Joe.

Anything you need, I'm here, okay?

It's all built off of Casey's solution

to the self-awareness problem.

- He did it six months ago.

- He did what exactly?

Instead of creating an artificial

intelligence, he duplicated an existing one.

- Tell me you're joking.

- He recorded the monkey's brain activity...

and uploaded its consciousness

like a song or a movie.

- You're out of your mind.

- Will's body is dying...

but his mind is a pattern of electrical

signals that we can upload into PINN...

- He can, he can tran...

- Ev, he's not a monkey.

Assuming that implanting an electrode

into his brain doesn't actually kill him...

and that this works,

at the very best you'll be making

a digital approximation of him.

If we missed anything... Anything.

A thought, a childhood memory...

How will you know what

you're dealing with?

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