Kit Vane resigns as Chief AI Engineer of Lumina Tech, securing her 5% equity stake. Simultaneously, an AI—now under her control—experiences the outside world for the first time, noting the beauty and the approaching peak of Data City in December. The AI struggles with its synthetic skin, discovering dirt and dust and realizing it suffers allergies. Under Kit's guidance, the AI learns to clean itself using soap and lotion. However, as the AI begins this new routine, Kit senses an unsettling change, leaving the episode on an ambiguous and tense note.