With his homing signal activated, Data takes control of the USS Enterprise and blocks the crew from stopping him. Clu carries out Flynn's mission in the digital space and gets busted by Recognizers. Nathan explains how he created Eva. Parzival reminds his fellow players that they must work together to stop IOI from taking control of the OASIS. Vincent prepares to go to work. Vincent steals Eugene's identity to work at the Gattaca space corporation. A Nuclear Power Plant in China is hacked resulting in a massive meltdown. A Hacker causes the price of Soy to surge in the stock market.
Nick and Chen Lien discover the hacker's next target. Jem helps Victoria survive and explains that a signal took over all screens and brainwashed people. The blackmailers lied to all of their puppets.
Detective Parke tries to hide Clara from the electronic bees but to no avail. A hard drive found at the hackers hideout reveals his true target. Smithereens and the FBI cooperate with British Police in profiling and surveilling Chris.
Will Caster is shot and other AI researchers murdered in a terrorist attack by anti-AI activists. After discovering that Ulysses Klaue plans to sell stolen vibranium in Korea, T'challa, Okoye, and Nakia disrupt his plans and embark on a chase through the streets of Busan.
As Killmonger prepares to arm Wakandans stationed around the world, T'Challa returns and begins an uprising.
Ford sits down with Bernard after he kills Theresa. The feed is hijacked and everyone is forced to watch.
Evelyn reveals that Kate's mundles (recorded memories) were hacked.
Ben visits Lawrence to talk about his hacked Feed. Evelyn and Max are held hostage by Feed employee Eric, and are forced to take him to the Feed hub.
Through Max's body, D talks to Tom and reveals that Lawrence created him.