At Polaris Tech's anniversary ceremony, Ms. Lucy Jagger delivers a speech praising Andrew Morris as the company's pillar and credits him for the AI that propelled them to the nation's top three. Backstage, Mr. Owen looks pale and is told Lucy had been resting at someone's place. During the ceremony Andrew is announced as the winner of the Excellence Award to applause. The mood shifts when a speaker accuses, "This technology was my blood and sweat for ten years. How did it suddenly become yours?" The episode ends with that ownership claim unresolved, threatening immediate fallout.