Kieran receives a simple assignment.
Pick up a passenger beneath an abandoned shopping district and deliver her to an atmospheric transport terminal before sunrise.
The client offers triple his normal rate and provides only one warning:
The passenger must not be scanned.
When Kieran arrives, he finds a frightened young woman named Yuna waiting beside the ruins of an old Hyundai dealership.
Seconds after she enters the Haneul, every security system in the district activates.
Police drones descend.
The city seals the roads.
Three unidentified pursuit vehicles emerge from nearby tunnels.
MIRA searches every available database but finds no record that Yuna was ever born.
During the escape, Kieran discovers that Yuna is carrying no stolen technology.
She is the technology.
Her memories contain a living fragment of the intelligence controlling Seoul’s transportation network. The fragment has developed a conscience and constructed a human identity to escape deletion.
Kieran must decide whether to complete the delivery, surrender Yuna to the authorities or protect a being that may not technically be alive.
As the Haneul launches from a collapsing elevated highway, MIRA speaks privately to Yuna through the vehicle’s internal network.
MIRA: “You are not the first machine to wonder whether you are real.”
The episode ends with the Haneul disappearing into the storm clouds above Seoul while Director Voss watches its flight path from a corporate command centre.
He orders his agents not to destroy the car.
He wants MIRA returned alive.
