FGC:Episode 13 Scene 05

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	Title2	EYECATCH B:“EPISODE #13: LILLIPUTIAN HITCHER”	UrsusArctos: The English title is pretty darn clever, being a sly reference to Ireul's Lilliputian size (look up Gulliver's Travels if you want an explanation) and the Angel hitching a ride on the way in.
	126		Zusuchan: Probably as good a time as any to say that the whole idea of a computer-like creation being considered "alive" is interesting, especially with the previously stated/hinted similarities between the Angels and humans. So is Ireul, a collection of organisms who collaboratively make up a computer also "human" then? Eva seems to harbor interesting ideas in regards to the definition of "human".
	127	RITSUKO (OFF):“Look, this is the border between the normal and heavy water.” IBUKI (OFF):“There's a higher level of oxygen here. Their preference is pretty obvious.”
	128	AOBA:“The area where ozone is vented in to maintain aseptic conditions isn't contaminated.” MISATO:“So does that mean that its weakness is oxygen?”	UrsusArctos: Guess what, it's another Andromeda reference, since the Andromeda organism showed a distinct vulnerability to oxygen and a preference for carbon dioxide. Although the mystery behind how Andromeda functioned was never solved in either the book or movie versions, both featured discussions of how its growth was affected by the sort of radiation, acidity-alkalinity, and so on. No such luck here, although as an SF fan I love this little homage. dzzthink: I haven't read Andromeda Strain, although I saw some scenes of the TV show. Anyway, I've never heard of organisms preferring carbon dioxide over oxygen as it's usually the reverse unless we are talking about plants and algae. UrsusArctos: Not to turn this into a general biology discussion, but you seriously need to read the book. Apart from tying into a multitude of things in this episode and NGE, it's a great science fiction story and an interesting thought experiment on extraterrestrial life. That aside, don't plants, algae (phytoplankton included) and photosynthetic bacteria comprise most living organisms on Earth? If they didn't preferentially consume carbon dioxide and excrete oxygen as a waste gas, mammals like us would never have evolved!
	129	RITSUKO:“It would seem so.”
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	132	HYUGA:“Injecting ozone. Concentration is increasing.” AOBA:“It's working, all right.”
	133	FUYUTSUKI:“Will this work?”
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	135	IBUKI:“It appears Zero A and Zero B will recover.” AOBA:“The area around the pipes has returned to normal.” HYUGA:“As expected, the central portion is proving to be tougher.” FUYUTSUKI:“All right, inject more ozone.”
	136	RITSUKO:“This isn't right.”
	137	AOBA:“What? It's increasing?”
	138	HYUGA:“Something is wrong. Heat levels are increasing.”
	139	AOBA (OFF):“The contaminated area is spreading again.”
	140	IBUKI:“It's no use! The ozone is no longer having any effect.” HYUGA:“Now it's absorbing the ozone.” RITSUKO:“Stop the ozone!”
	141	RITSUKO (OFF):“Amazing..”	Mr. Tines: The rainbow coloured dendritic frame is a contrast to the quasi-regular pattern shown at other times, that look like they could arise from some form of cellular automata. dzzthink: These patterns almost resemble the ridges of a brain and there are images of neural networks, making the Angel seem like a biosynthetic organism with cyber-capabilities.
	142	RITSUKO:“It's evolving.”
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	144	MISATO:“What's wrong?”
	145	AOBA (OFF):“Something's hacking into the sub-computer. Intruder unknown.”
	146	HYUGA:“Not now! Damn it! Dealing with C-mode.”
	147	AOBA:“Unfreeze the barrier. Open a decoy entry.”
	148	AOBA (OFF):“Eighteen seconds to completion of trace.” HYUGA (OFF):“No human being could do this.” MAN (OFF):“Decoy entry has been avoided.” MAN (OFF):“Deploying barrier.” MAN (OFF):“Barrier has been penetrated.” MAN (OFF):“Open another false entry.”
	149	AOBA:“Trace complete. The hacker is inside this facility!”
	150	AOBA:“B Wing basement, in the Pribnow Box!”
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	153	IBUKI (OFF):“Optical pattern is changing.”	UrsusArctos: Ireul's patterns in the last image look a little like Van Gogh's Starry Night.
	154	AOBA:“Those glowing lines are electronic circuits. This is just like a computer.” HYUGA:“Opening decoy entry. Failed. We've been blocked.”
	155	MISATO:“Sever the main cable.” MISATO:“Fire the lasers.” IBUKI (OFF):“It's generating an AT Field. No effect.” MAN (OFF):“Negative, it refuses to accept the command.”
	156	AOBA:“It's accessing security's main computer bank. Cracking the password.”
	157	AOBA (OFF):“Twelfth digit... sixteenth digit... D word has been cleared!”	dzzthink: These look a little like genetic sequence patterns.
	158	HYUGA:“It's broken into security's main bank!”
	159	HYUGA (OFF):“It's reading the main bank. We can't stop it.” FUYUTSUKI:“What is its objective?” AOBA (OFF):“Scanning the main bus. This code is... Oh, no!”
	160	AOBA:“It's going to infiltrate the Magi!”
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