Fade to black. Credits roll over a slow fade‑in of the restored “Eclipse” track.

The script’s author is —a pseudonym used by a disgraced former Arcadia engineer, Alex Mercer , who was fired after a heated dispute with Victor over the decision to digitize the analog archives. Alex, a purist who believed the analog soul could never be captured digitally, vowed revenge by creating a “digital ghost” that would haunt the studio’s most prized assets.

The camera pulls back to reveal the studio’s neon sign once more, now glowing brighter than before—a symbol that even in the face of sabotage and ghosts of the past, .

Jenna, calm and authoritative, activates the , plunging the room into darkness. Alex’s EMP device sputters, the stored charge dissipating. In the brief blackout, Eli silently triggers a remote firewall lockout , sealing Alex out of the network.