Scene 25: Altered Timelines
The Secure-Grid had automated mechanisms to protect the intervention team and their link in case of potential compromise. The connection with the Motoko’s compromised Grid-Node was severed. But somehow something strange had happened. The return to normal-mode and normal-time brought about a confusing landscape. The team-link was also severed. In-fact the entire Grid felt different. The Secure Grid had disappeared. What had just happened?

Scene 26: Unintended Consequences
Motoko’s incident statistics read-out display was still active, but activity was zero. That was impossible. No-crimes were being reported. City-status throughout all systems were showing green. There was a strange feel of connectedness with all things. Motoko felt like her Ghost was somehow interlinked to all things. It didn’t feel cyber... It didn’t feel like it came from The Grid. What had The Platinum Prophet done? Had all Grid control-nodes compromised now?

Scene 27: Like Tears in Rain
Her self-diagnostics completed, Motoko stood up from the ledge of the building, hundreds of feet above ground. She now remembered what led her there.. This is where her physical insertion point into a compromised Control Node was located. She remembered the Jupiter Mission transmission and the appearance of The Platinum Prophet. The world had changed, and somehow New Shinjuku City appeared in a brighter light. Somehow all Ghosts seemed to be connected, Cyberized humans and Synthetics alike. All were operating in a strange, inexplicable synergy. The rain, as emitted from city sprinklers in the artificial sky started to fall onto the night-time city scape. A surging feeling of happiness emerged from Motoko’s Ghost. The remains of her organic sympathetic system even produced something she’d not experienced since her childhood. A tear... washed away with the falling rain...