God has a pretty classic line: ‘I am that I am.’ Me? I'm just Maddie Kim. I was born in the late Holocene, and I've seen some shit. So much time. So many histories. Glorious. Horrific. Fascinating, all of them.
And yet, I keep coming back to this one little flicker, between when we first met and first kissed. (...) Now, that is the eternal question. Honestly, I'd much rather try and solve that mystery than this other one. It sounds crazy, but I miss ignorance, I miss pain, I miss life.—Maddie Kim, to Caspian Keyes, Deep Time
Madison “Maddie” Kim is a main character in Pantheon, serving as the primary protagonist of the series. She is portrayed by Katie Chang.
Character[]
Maddie represents both the best of humanity while also representing the every woman, feeling trapped in her awkward body and troubled life in her new school. She seeks escape from the real world and does so through her draw to the interior world of technology, sparking conflict with her mother, who pushes Maddie to unplug and engage with the real world – specifically with her grief over losing her father. Maddie's affinity for technology is tied, however, to her memory and her love for her father, who taught her how to code.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Maddie was born to David Kim, a computer engineer, and his wife Ellen Kim, a history professor. Growing up, Maddie was closer to her father. When she was in the seventh grade, her father was diagnosed with a terminal illness. During one of David's chemotherapy sessions, he gifted Maddie her mother’s old laptop and she threw it in the trash, thinking he gave it to her because he knew he was dying.
After David’s death, Maddie became withdrawn and she and her mother moved. Ellen began dating a man at her work named Gabe, which Maddie did not like.
Learning her Father’s True Fate[]
As Maddie is sitting through a mythology lesson on the newer generation overthrowing the older generation, she gets an email calling her ugly and telling her to kill herself. As Maddie nervously fixes her hair and shifts her legs, most of the other girls mimic her movements. Distressed, Maddie asks to go to the bathroom, but the teacher asks for her phone and she runs out of the room. As she sits outside the principal’s office, she listens to her mother explain that she is adjusting to a recent move and the anniversary of her father’s death is coming up, which the principal understands. Maddie and Ellen drive home in silence and Maddie goes up to her room to find an email from her grandmother. As she browses through pictures her grandmother sends her, Maddie responds that she misses her grandmother. As she types out her troubles, she gets an email of herself with pig ears and nose. She tells her grandmother everything is going great before crying herself to sleep. She wakes up to find a string of emojis from an unknown individual who knows about the email. After expressing how it hurt her, Maddie deduces that the person is trying to protect her.
At school, Maddie's bullies all get hurtful texts and emails about how they betrayed one another in some form, ending in Samara, the ringleader, attacking another girl, Erin, in the bathroom, an act witnessed by Maddie. She returns home to find that her contact was responsible for the hacks. When she asks why the person is helping her, the person reveals they know her mother. Ellen enters and becomes angry upon learning that she has been talking to a stranger online. When Ellen asks what the person wants with Maddie, they send a line from a poem and Ellen is panicked. She goes to her room and calls Peter Waxman to demand to know what he did with David. Maddie posts a message on the dark web about Logorhythms faking her father's death and is quickly answered by someone named Gage, who asks her for proof, and she reluctantly sends him the chat. Ellen then walks in and tells her to drop it. Ellen says David is not alive and Maddie reveals she found the poem in Ellen's books. Ellen insists that it is not Maddie's father.
The following morning, her mother drops her off at school. During class, Maddie gets a message in emojis from someone under the screen name AngryAngel. Maddie looks at the messages until the teacher closes her laptop because he is asking for her journal. During break, Maddie goes behind the bleachers to try to speak with AngryAngel again, but Samara finds her and accuses Maddie of hacking her phone. Samara stops Maddie from leaving and threatens to attack her until Ellen arrives and threatens Samara. Maddie tries to get her mother to back off and Ellen lets go. Samara runs off and Ellen reveals she has been keeping a major secret from Maddie.
Freeing her Father[]
Her mother tells her that after her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he volunteered for an experimental procedure to upload his mind onto a computer. Maddie expresses joy when her mother explains that her father chose to upload his mind, however her mother says she was present when David died and shows her a case of broken glass from the supposed failed upload. Ellen tries to convince Maddie that the person messaging Maddie is not truly her father and they have a fight. Ellen says David is gone as Maddie cries into her mother’s arms and Ellen declares she will make Logorhythms pay. Maddie contacts Gage and asks who he told about her father and reveals someone offered to help free him and Gage reveals he sent the logs to a contact of his and mentions the DDoS attack on Logorhythms. They both deny involvement and, as she asks about UIs, she gets a message from AngryAngel telling her to stop talking to Gage as he is being watched. AngryAngel tells Maddie to come to the mall food court at three the following day.
At school, Maddie is thinking of ways to protect herself in case things go south and sees Justine, a girl who writes papers for other students. She asks Justine to take her and the other girl agrees for a price. At the mall, she and Justine enter the food court and, as Justine is eating free samples, she sees a man kick out a chair after they make eye contact. Maddie goes over to him and he introduces himself as Cody Lowell and says his wife Laurie messaged her. Maddie looks up Laurie and finds that she died four years ago. He insists his wife and her father are not dead and Maddie gets up to leave, but Cody asks what her favorite song is, along with her father’s favorite song. She says he liked Queen and “You’re My Best Friend” plays over the speakers and everyone’s phones are Maddie stays. Cody explains that his wife was talented at reading stock and that he was offered a way to save her after a car crash. He explain that Logorhythms uploaded her and lied about it failing. Laurie then calls and Cody hands his phone to Maddie. Laurie explains that she is responsible for the d-dos attack, a failed attempt to rescue David. Laurie urges her to go with her mother so that she can attack Logorhythms from the inside as Cody hands Maddie a bracelet to help free David. When she gets home, she asks her mother to go with her to Palo Alto.
The following day, mother and daughter go to Logorhythms as Waxman transfers David’s data from Norway. The two sit in the lobby until Waxman arrives to escort them to a boardroom. Pope introduces himself and Deirdre Ryan. Waxman explains that once they wipe the data, David will be gone, but Pope and Ryan refuse to do so and claim David is their property and that Ellen's power of attorney does not include his mind. As her mother chastises them, she activates her bracelet and takes down Logorhythms servers. As Pope and Ryan say Ellen will lose in court and tarnish her family name, Pope is informed that everything is down. With Logorhythms losing money, she agrees to give them back control in exchange for her father. Ellen is surprised by her daughter's act and tries to convince Maddie that the device on the table is not her father, but Maddie insists that it is. As they cannot afford to lose money at this rapid rate, Pope reluctantly hands over David and warns her to be careful. Once the Kims leave the premises, Logorhythms gains control.
Once they reach home, Maddie runs up to her room and reveals the Lowells have bought David an encrypted server to house David and they are freeing him. Once they finish the download, she gets a call from an unknown number and her father answers, much to her joy and Ellen's horror. David tells her to open Reign of Winter and his avatar appears. David asks if she is ready to finish the adventure and father and daughter play their favorite game together for the first time in two years.
Reuniting with her Father[]
A few days later, she is playing Reign of Winter. Maddie calls for her father when she is struggling with a chimera. he arrives and helps her finish off the chimera. David says he was looking for Laurie, but cannot find her. They set out and David expresses his disbelief that Laurie helped him escape Logorhythms but has not contacted him since. David comments that Ellen has not talked to him since he was freed as Maddie explains that she has had to work more since he died and that Ellen hates virtual reality. Just then, they are attacked by another party, but David breaks the game and kicks their attackers out. Logorhythms notices the spike and records it for when the tracking program is ready. She berates her father for his actions and expresses her fears that the moderators could ban him and he could be hunted down by the NSA. She tells her father to act like he does not exist, to which he says his wife already thinks so. She exits the game and agrees to talk to her mother for him.
At school, Maddie is having lunch with Justine when she asks Maddie why she wanted her to accompany her to her meeting at the mall. Justine asks Maddie about her plans and Maddie mentions her parent's current relationship status. Justine reveals her parents were the same before their divorce, but Maddie insists they will stay together and plans to trick them into getting back together. Justine criticizes her plan as Maddie expresses her fears that her mother might marry her boyfriend.
That night, Maddie is preparing dinner and has put her father on a laptop in a chair. She calls down her mother as David expresses doubt and reveals he called Ellen at work. When Ellen walks in, she is surprised to see the set up and David apologizes. Ellen walks over to the laptop and closes it. She berates her mother for treating her father like this but Ellen insists that the person on the screen is not her husband. Ellen insists the two talk, but Maddie insists they talk as a family and David begs Ellen to listen. Ellen leaves and Maddie apologizes to her father. David is silent for a bit and asks who Gabe is. At Gabe's house, her father hacks into all of Gabe's electronics and Ellen berates him for it. When she refuses to tell Gabe what is going on, he breaks up with Ellen.
When her mother arrives home, she wakes Maddie up to help her talk to David. As her parents talk, they agree to not get back together and remain friends, much to Maddie's dismay. After crying in the hallway, she returns to find her mother dancing. Ellen tells her daughter how her father supposedly won her over from Eddie Vedder, which Maddie does not believe.
Learning of Secondary Effects[]
After a nightmare, she logs onto Reign of Winter and finds David at the edge of the playable world and tells him they should move. Maddie asks David where his server is and he answers Oregon. Maddie asks what her father looks like outside of the game and he gives her a link. Maddie arrives in a replica of David’s office in a floating chibi form and sees her father as a two dimensional figure. David explain life before Maddie freed him when Laurie arrives. Laurie accuses David of doing something to her as Laurie attacks David and kicks out Maddie. In a panic, Maddie contacts Gage and gives her Justine's phone number. Gage chastises her for ghosting him and Maddie promises to explain everything if they talk. Maddie goes to Justine’s house and pleads with her to use her phone. Justine relents once she agrees to buy cookies. Maddie speaks with Gage and he chastises her before saying she was warned to stay away by Laurie but Laurie attacked her father. Gage asks for her name and threatens to hang up if she does not. Maddie gives him her name and says she lives in Sacramento and Gage gives her his real name, Caspian Keyes. Caspian says he found a proposition logical problem on the dark web, he solved it and they started talking. Caspian says he gave Laurie her chat logs because it reminded him of how he and Laurie communicated and asks why she told Maddie not to talk to him. Maddie confirms Caspian does not know the Lowells and she reveals Logorhythms is watching him and he mentions Norway and Uploaded Intelligence. Maddie says goodbye as Caspian mentions he thinks Logorhythms changed images on him and Maddie mentions Laurie said he was being watched two weeks ago and hangs up.
Later that day, her mother is looking up Laurie at Laurie's obituary and finds it strange that she cannot find pictures of her husband. The doorbell rings and she answers it. Cody barges in with something in his pocket and angrily asks what she did with his wife. Ellen pepper sprays him as Cody falls to the floor and a flashlight falls out of his pocket. Maddie introduces Cody and Ellen backs off. Ellen gets Cody eye drops and he apologizes and thanks them for not calling the police. Ellen says it is not off the table as she and Cody insist Laurie first contacted her. Cody says Laurie has been different since breaking David out and that he was responsible for something and that it was why she wanted to break him out, much to Maddie's shock. Cody tells them about his wife’s accident and how Logorhythms tricked him into letting them upload her and lying about it, as well as how she managed to contact him. He tells them how they figured out how to communicate and see each and Laurie gives Cody advice on how to make money on the stock market and he buys servers for her before eventually finding out about David.
The following day, as Cody struggles to shut off Laurie’s server, but Ellen encourages him. Just as he is about to, he and Maddie get notifications. Cody takes out haptic gear and lends a vest to Maddie. He scans her face so that she would look more like her. Maddie goes her room and puts on the gear and, upon seeing her father in three dimensions, hugs him for the first time in two years. David reveals that his and Laurie’s “cages” have combined for the time being and explains that Laurie has a flaw that causes her mind to decay over time the faster she moves. As they watch Laurie explain this to Cody, Maddie realizes her father has it as well.
Hacking Logorhythms[]
As she, her father, and the Lowells think of how to cure the flaw. David starts to glitch and Laurie realizes Logorhythms found his servers and she backs up as much of David as she can. The background falls apart as Cody leaves and warns Maddie to do the same. Maddie. Once she removes her virtual reality goggles, Ellen comforts her daughter as Cody enters her room to reveal the servers are being turned off and Laurie reveals Logorhythms bought the company that owns the building earlier that day. Everyone waits anxiously as Laurie reboots David. David is revived and does not remember the last twenty four hours. Laurie brings him up to speed as they discuss how to fix the flaw and bring David back to full speed. Cody suggests they get a floating data center like Laurie, but she insists that they set it up at the house. Cody says they would need special equipment and Maddie demands he buy it as he has the money. Cody tries to talk the Kims out of it, but they do not relent.
Over the next few, days, servers, cooling systems, and a decile generator arrive at the house and they set it up, drawing attention from the neighbors. Once everything is set up, they log into the server and discuss how Logorhythms found them. They deduce that they are using a tracking system to find them and Ellen and Cody express concern that it is too dangerous to attack again. As they think off where Logorhythms would keep the data on uploads, she mentions the black site in Norway, confusing the adults. She mentions Caspian to Laurie , but Laurie does not recognize the name. They find the black site in Svalbard and Ellen mentions Pope flew in from overseas and had a specific phone with him. David finds Pope in Norway and they hack his phone. After a few seconds, they drain Pope's phone and Pope has his phone returned to his office to recharge. Once it is charging, they find it in close to a laptop and David uses the phone's vibration function to walk it to the computer. David uses untrasonic tones in the air to type on the keyboard and gets Laurie access. They then sort through the files for anything on the flaw. In their search, they discover Chonda. Knowing Pope is letting them hack Logorhythms to track her father, he gives them a fake location.
Once they sort through the files, she tells her mother and Cody. Laurie and David learn the flaw is naturally occurring and no cure currently exists. They also find find files on Caspian and share them with her. They express their belief that Caspian might be the only person who could cure the flaw. She is surprised to learn that Stephen Holstrom was cloned and her father insists Caspian is their last hope to be cured.
Meeting Caspian in Person[]
The next day, the Kims and the Lowells are searching for Caspian but find that he skipped school and his fake girlfriend's social media has been seemingly abandoned. David feels that by contacting Caspian, they could alter his destiny and stop him from cracking integrity. As Laurie searches the files, she starts to glitch and Cody fears the flaw will take its toll on her soon. She insists she could call him as Ellen believes she finds it strange how Maddie possibly found the one person who could fix the flow. David states that he was the only one who solved Laurie’s equation and Maddie mentions he saw similarities between how David and Laurie communicated through emojis. Maddie and Laurie state they should seek out Chonda, but Cody and Ellen are against it. As David and Laurie tell the others about their alternative for the cure involving merging code to create a new entity and form a new mind, Justine calls to tell her Caspian has been calling. She patches Maddie in and listens in. Caspian tells her he is coming to Sacramento and she puts him on speaker. Caspian says his “father” was shot and they cannot go to a hospital as Logorhythms will find them. Ellen tells Caspian to meet them in the parking lot of the Sacramento Raceway at one the following afternoon and hangs up.
Caspian reaches Sacramento Raceways and meets up with Cody and the Kims. They get out of their cars and Maddie notices blood on Caspian’s shirt . Upon seeing Cary, Ellen insists they need to take him to a hospital, but everyone questions how not to lead Logorhythms back to them by doing so. Cody insists he can use a fake name to check in Cary and tells Caspian to head back with the Kims. Caspian is reluctant until Maddie reveals they know the threat Logorhythms is and know what Caspian is. Caspian then agrees to leave Cary with Cody and goes with the Kims. As Ellen drives, she and Caspian sit in the back seats. When asks who shot him “father”, Caspian says Cary is not his father and his shooter was not his wife. Caspian says he does not know where his mother is asks if her husband has reached a hospital. She clarifies how everyone is connected and explains that Laurie and her father are the first and second people to be uploaded respectively. Caspian asks how they know about him and, upon return to her house, Maddie takes him to her room and shows him his files from Logorhythms. She asks if he could talk with her father, but Caspian insists he cannot help and he is going through something. Maddie storms out of her room and runs outside. David tells her Caspian will help her as soon as he comes to terms with his revelation. Justine arrives and Maddie hangs up. Justine states she wants to know what is going on but respects her privacy and that she will be there for her.
After Caspian run out of the house in a state of shock, she sits next to him. He asks if she believes in the simulation theory and she expresses how the world felt fake after her father died and how her life before that felt fake soon after. Caspian reveals he always had a feeling it was fake and that he now has no idea what he is. Maddie says her father is digital and laughs when Caspian says his real mother was a robot, he joins in soon after.
As Caspian is working on the cure, Chonda arrives and overclocks so that the UIs can speak privately. Soon, Chonda demands Caspian tell him how long it will take to fix the flaw. Caspian does not answer and says David and Laurie showed him his files. Chonda tries to leave to warn others but is stopped from leaving When asked what he means by others, Chonda reveals he sent blueprints to upload people to the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Israel, Iran, and China. He selected these governments because he knew they would upload their best operatives and keep it secret. Chonda intends to change the UI's minds where they could see that they are more than human upon meeting him. David chastises Chonda for this as an unknown amount of people could die because of this along with the UIs.
Caspian takes off his gear and leaves the house with her following, trying to get him to stay. Caspian expresses his frustration as she tries to say he is there for a reason. Caspian ignores her and drives off, giving it a month before everything falls apart.
Threat of Exposure[]
Two weeks later, she and her mother are panic buying in preparation for the damage the UIs could cause. David calls his family to inform them Laurie is planning to go public about Uploaded Intelligence, shocking Maddie. Her father tells his family about Chonda's anger at Laurie’s plans and they have twenty four hours before she goes public. Maddie states she agrees with Chonda despite not trusting him. Ellen asks if David has a plan and he has them enlist the help of Peter Waxman. She goes to Cody's apartment to find him packing and she tells him Laurie is planning to reveal UIs to the public.
Later, Waxman comes over and hands over the track data and the Kims invite him in to speak with David, but David declines. Laurie returns and Chonda arrives, David reveals he invited them both to give him a speed advantage. Chonda rebuilds the program and they realize the Chinese UIs are attacking Logorhythms. Maddie and Ellen tell Waxman about the attack and he agrees not to tell his company.
When the attack is thwarted, she invites Cody over to let him talk to Laurie. He puts on her gear, as he destroys his, and logs onto his wife’s server. When he Maddie asks how he plans to stop Laurie, he tells her he cannot change his wife’s mind and is only there to say goodbye to Laurie. Maddie leaves and Cody speaks with Laurie. As Maddie walks, she gets a call from Chonda. Chonda reveals he sees Laurie and David as threats and says her father will suffer the same fate as Laurie if he interferes with his plans. Maddie runs back home but Chonda reveals she will never make it in time and launches a mission at the cargo ship housing Laurie's server just as she finishes her recording.
Threat of Attack[]
A week after Laurie’s death, Maddie is in her room watching news footage on the UI attacks when she gets a call from Caspian. He apologizes for leaving and reveals he sent her thirty million dollars in bitcoin. He reveals he is going to Norway with Pope and plans to shut down the UI program and to release Logorhythms files on him if she does not hear back from him in a week. She berates him for giving up on finding a cure for the flaw while Caspian insists it is the only thing keeping them safe. When asked why Caspian is trusting her with the money, he says it is because Maddie is the only person he trusts at the moment. Maddie quotes Holstrom and compares Caspian to him before hanging up. Her mother gets her for a ceremonial burial for Laurie Lowell.
In the backyard of the Kim House, the Kims join Cody as he holds a pair of his wife’s earrings. He states that they are not her talks about Laurie’s first funeral. As Ellen says he must honor his grief, Cody states he would rather honor Laurie’s dying wish to reveal UIs to the world. As she expresses her doubt that people would react positively to learning of UIs, Cody berates her for supposedly siding with Chonda. Ellen insists no one will believe them as Cody points out the server in their basement. When Maddie points out that her father wants to remain secret for his own safety, Cody mocks her and he and Ellen get in a scuffle. Ellen knees Cody in the groin and, after getting up, he insists he is going public.
When Cody forms a small protest in Palo Alto, she plays chess with her father and doubts anyone important will believe him and Ellen goes to join Cody. As they play, the two discuss a conspiracy theory he taught her. She realizes her father knows how long he has, just over two years if he stays as he is or a decade to a decade and a half if he goes back to emojis. When Maddie asks if she is the only thing keeping her father around, they get a call from Chonda. Chonda reveals he will have the Indian Navy launch a nuclear warhead which he hacked to target Sacramento. Chonda reveals David backed up Laurie’s message and gives him ten minutes to come to him or he attacks Sacramento. David reveals he snuck into Laurie’s server when Cody used his and says Laurie wrote a hack to broadcast her message on every device on the planet. David says he copied to as he agrees with her to some extent. When Maddie insists he fight, David insists her safety is his primary priority and he must give in to Chonda's demands. However, Maddie believes if he does not fight, Chonda will try something like this again.
At the store, Maddie is buying multiple bags of ice when Justine approaches her. Maddie begs her to get out of town but Justine laughs it off and Maddie insists she help her with the ice. As they drive, Maddie tells Justine about UIs. The other girl does not believe her until she sees the server in the basement. She logs into the server and tries desperately to free her father after Chonda traps him in an illusion and succeeds in getting through to him. David gets Chonda away from the controls as the military picks up the nuke. When Chonda is pinned, the Chinese UIs join in and take out Maddie’s avatar. As Chonda questions why David sacrificed his home and family, David reveals he duplicated himself and is changing the coordinates, sending the nuke to the Pacific Ocean. A small fishing vessel whitenesses the explosion. Ping and the other Chinese UIs reach David and gang up on him. She logs back on and is quickly restrained. As David is overpowered, Maddie encourages him to send Laurie’s message. He does so and Maddie watches as her father die as the message is broadcast. When her father is gone, she removes her headset and rests her head on the server.
As Maddie buries her father’s neural grid, she gets a call from Caspian. He tells Maddie to put him through to her father and says he can fix the flaw, but she reveals her father is dead just as the power and phones go out. The power in the Kim House comes back on almost instantly due to the generator and Maddie buries her father’s neural grid. Maddie goes out front just as her mother arrives and, seeing Maddie in tears, Ellen comforts her daughter. As they embrace, their neighbors come over to their house as it is the only house in the neighborhood with power.
Life during Shutdown[]
In an attempt to make life in Sacramento easier during the Internet Shutdown, Maddie, Justine, and some local youths take it upon themselves to rig up a local mesh network for their suburb. As Maddie’s is setting up the last transmitter, she has a flashback of her encounters with UIs. However, just as they set it up, a man Kurt, fires his rifle at the transmitter and says he has been watching Maddie’s family and expresses his skepticism that they were not involved in the current state of the world due their ties to Logorhythms. Maddie deescalates the situation by denying everything and the Kurt leaves.
When Maddie arrives home, she sees government officials in her living room and Ellen says she has been called to testify at a hearing in Washington D.C. as the Senate looks into whether the Internet can be safely restarted. Ellen asks Maddie to go with her, but Maddie insists she stay home as she finally got her mesh network, Lilypad, to work. Maddie wants her mother to tell the truth: that not all UIs are malevolent, but Ellen is convinced that she should play dumb about Logorhythms to keep what is left of the peace. Ellen reluctantly lets Maddie stay behind.
One night, Maddie, Justine, and their friends discuss UIs. One boy thinks it’s is a hoax to initiate martial law. A girl thinks UIs are real and wants to become one while another boy is disgusted by the process. Justine tries to get them to change the subject while Maddie says uploading is not about what is gained by doing so, but what is lost.
As she is advertising Lilypad at a local supermarket, Justine warns her that Kurt has arrived and tells Maddie to come to her house. Maddie rushes off and bumps into a woman and, taking a moment to recognize her, realizes she is Caspian's fake mother. Renee tells Maddie that, much to the girl's disgust, Caspian is using a copy of her father’s upload to cure the flaw. Maddie realizes Renee is there to take her to Norway and runs off, declaring her father to be dead.
At Justine's house, Maddie vents about Logorhythms using her father's upload as Justine asks if she will go or not. Maddie is unsure as she briefly wonders if the upload truly is her father. As curfew approaches, Justine offers Maddie to stay at her place until her mother returns, but Maddie declines. As Maddie is riding her bike home, Kurt droves up behind her and Maddie narrowly avoids being hit by his truck. She makes it to her front door as Kurt screams at her. Maddie gets inside and locks the door, but Kurt kicks it in. She hides in the kitchen and grabs a knife as Kurt searches for her. Once he finds Maddie, Renee teases him from behind and he passes out. Maddie realizes it was meant for her and the girl agree to go to Svalbard.
Arriving on Svalbard, Renee escorts Maddie to the Data Center, Maddie asks why it is still open and Renee brushes it off. They enter an elevator and reach the conference room. Caspian is surprised to find them there and, after Renee reaffirms her commitment to Caspian, he has secretly drag her out, screaming as she is removed. He fires Pope for going behind his back as Dr. Gold questions why Caspian, as project lead, has so much power. Pope deescalates the situation and has everyone vacate the room, leaving only Maddie and Caspian. Caspian apologizes and offers to send her back to Sacramento, however Maddie says she came willingly and wants to delete every last copy of her father’s upload. Caspian is surprised by this and states he is working to crack integrity so that someone can keep the other UIs in check. Maddie realizes Pope is manipulating him but Caspian refuses to believe her. After offering Maddie a ride home again, she insists she is not going anywhere until her father is deleted. Caspian does not give in and walks off.
Time on Svalbard[]
Maddie dreams that she is back in her room during a snowstorm. She goes to the backyard and finds a coyote digging up her father’s neural grid. She scares the coyote of a tries to bury it again, only to find a hand gripping it from below. She digs further and finds her father’s rotting corpse, calling her kiddo. Maddie wakes up in her room at the Data Center and is escorted to Caspian by a guard. Caspian greats her as Maddie figures out the NSA has no idea that he is Holstrom's clone. Caspian takes Maddie to a room where Logorhythms tests their newest creations and have the guards wait outside. After triggering a field that blocks electronic surveillance, they continue their conversation. Caspian reaffirms his commitment to curing the flaw and having her father become the UI god as the NSA desires a weapon, something David is not. When Maddie asks who the American government plans to upload, Caspian reveals astronaut Joey Coupet has already been uploaded, but he insists he does not want to give the cure to anyone he does not know. They then leave the lab.
As she eat, Waxman approaches her and talks about how he is being forced to stay on Svalbard after he blew the whistle on UIs. Maddie calls Waxman out on his claims after informing him of the different conspiracy theories about him being in the United States. In return, Waxman calls Maddie out for wanting to delete all copies of her father. After joking about David's character in college, Waxman mentions that Joey's upload is being held in a server in the D.C. area. Before he came say more, Julius Pope asks to speak with Waxman alone and the men go to Pope's office.
In Holstrom's office, Maddie and Caspian are looking further into Joey. While Maddie thinks she is the perfect candidate, Caspian is still hesitant as he still needs her father to help him figure things out with his work. Maddie reflects that she had not properly mourned for her father after realizing he was uploaded and that it stunned her. Caspian asks her to elaborate and she says that if entire generations of the same family were to upload they would linger on the newest generation, not letting them learn for themselves and make their own decisions. Caspian states that while her family chose to become a UI, Caspian was made to finish Holstrom's work. After Maddie mentions people do not have endless copies of themselves, Caspian brings upon himself as a copy. Maddie calls him out for creating a chosen one fantasy for him to prove that he is better than Holstrom, his drive to single handily crack integrity. Maddie says he is ignoring other people in his quest to prove himself, which would have stunted civilization if humanity followed that path. Before leaving, Maddie emphasizes that humanity has to learn from its mistakes, which is why they need to die. After she leaves, Caspian reflects on what she said and theorizes another potential cure.
As she is watching the surf, Caspian approaches her to inform her he has found a cure for the flaw. He had Maddie the drive with the only copy and lets her choose which to do with it. After a moment’s thought, she chooses to cure her father. As they head back, Caspian notices their body guards are acting frantic.
They are told the FBI is two hours away and Maddie Caspian, Pope, Anssi, and a guard go to a lab to test the cure, stating they have a jet fueled and ready to go. They bring up David and he apologizes to Maddie for keeping his upload a secret from her. When he asks about Ellen, Caspian gives him the cure. It works and, as David mentions speaking to someone named MIST, Anssi deletes him. As Maddie panics watching her father die for the third time, Caspian tries to stop Anssi from stealing the cure, but is restrained by a guard. After the guard offers to kill Caspian, Pope rejects the offer as he thinks Holstrom might want to meet his clone and informs Caspian that he was simply a tool for achieve their goals. As they leave, Maddie calls Pope a murderer. Pope states her father died two years ago as he locks the teenagers in the lab, Maddie screaming as she pounds at the door.
Caspian tries to get the door open as Maddie mourns her father. After failing to get the doors open, Caspian tries to get Maddie to help as she better than him in situations like this. He states that they have to hurry as he believes Holstrom will order them to be killed. After another few failed attempts. Caspian gives up when Maddie reminds him what is at stake and convinces him to give the cure to Joey. Soon a message pops up on the screen. Unsure of its origin, the being opens the door and they leave. They go to the basement where Caspian takes the cure back and Maddie alerts Caspian that Pope is coming for them in the elevator he shut it off, trapping the CEO. After Maddie thanks Waxman, Caspian finishes downloading the cure and they flee to the garage. A car pulls up to them and Cary Duvall, holding the driver at gunpoint, tells them to get in. They reach a private jet and Maddie and Caspian get on while Cary stays behind, telling Caspian he does not need his help and that the boy is better than his template. After Maddie bribes the pilot with bitcoin to fly them to D.C., Caspian tells Cary to stay safe and they fly off. Renee arrives just as the plane takes off and, after failing to get the pilot to stop, sees a harbor and takes a boat.
As they fly east, Maddie thinks about what her father mentioned and asks Caspian for the drive. She plugs it into her laptop and, after being greeted by name, asks who the cure is. The cure is revealed to be a cloud-based intelligence named MIST and it considers itself to be Maddie's sister, much to Maddie’s shock and surprise. She asks Caspian what is happening. Caspian theorizes that by mixing the code of two UIs, he created a sentient program, kind of like a teratoma tumor. Maddie wants to destroy it, but Caspian stops her as he does not have the resources to make anything one.
Attempting to Recruit Joey Coupet[]
Maddie and Caspian arrive in Washington D.C. where protestors march the streets clamoring for safety from the UI threat and for the Internet to be restarted. As they want the protests from their hotel room, they talk with MIST. The two talk to MIST and ask her if she cured Holstrom. Mist confirms it and states she freed them after Holstrom ordered their deaths. Caspian thanks MIST as Maddie asks for proof that MIST is indeed her sister. MIST shows some of their father’s code and Maddie states to get unsettled and shuts the laptop. Caspian apologizes for dragging her into their current situation as he resolves to take responsibility for his own creation. He then suggests Maddie visit her mother as he tries to figure out a way to contact Joey. Maddie is fearful, thinking her mother does not know her whereabouts, but goes.
Maddie arrives at her mother’s hotel and sees her in the restaurant. Ellen joyfully greets her daughter before reprimanding Maddie for going to Svalbard. Maddie tells Ellen Logorhythms kept a copy of David’s upload before deleting it, angering Ellen. After Maddie asks about her parents having a second child and learning she practically demanded a sibling in kindergarten, she tells her mother Caspian cracked integrity and has the cure with him. Surprised, Ellen insists Maddie tell Senator Rivera about the cure, but Maddie rejects the offer as she fears what will happen to Caspian. As Senator Rivera arrives, Ellen pleads with her daughter to reconsider, but Maddie tells her mother to trust her, she asks for two more days before walking away.
When Maddie returns to the hotel room, she finds Caspian planning how to contact Joey. He theorizes that she is housed in a server connected to the SIPRNetand suggests hacking into a Department of Defense contractor to contact her when Maddie suggests contacting her family. She tells Caspian Joey agreed to upload if her family could remain in contact with her. While Caspian is hesitant, Maddie convinces him.
When they reach the Moretti house, Jake Moretti answers the door and they tell him they know his wife is a UI and they have the cure for the flaw. Jake asks what they mean and, after Caspian explains what the flaw is, he tells them to leave or he will get his gun. He closes the door on them and Caspian turns to leave as Maddie compares this to the first time her mother met Cody Lowell. Soon, Joey's sister Pasha Coupet reprimands them for revealing the flaw to Jake and the boys. After Jake fearfully asked if Joey is truly dying, Pasha has them come to to cure her sister. In the Moretti's living room, Maddie and Caspian explain their experiences with UIs as Pasha expresses her doubts about the cure. After things get heated, Jake has his sons go upstairs. As they do, Oliver takes the bag containing the cure. As Caspian explains that speed is the main factor in execrating the flaw, Maddie realizes that Pasha not only moved in to look after her nephews, but to also be able to talk to her sister. After a brief pause, they convince the adults to let them talk to Joey.
Caspian logs into Joey's server and she, Pasha, and Joey are surprised when Caspian suddenly falls back and passes out. Maddie and Pasha tend to him as Jake logs in to speak with his wife. Caspian pulls Maddie aside and tells her they need to leave as Dr. Gold knows they are there. Maddie tells him Joey is just agitated from being cut off for so long. As they speak, Jake grabs his gun and, in a fit of rage, demands Caspian cure his wife and Pasha desperately tries to stop him. With a gun in his face, Caspian calmly tells Jake to shoot him. When Caspian demands Jake shoot him, he hits the teenager with his gun and threatens to kill Maddie. Caspian agrees to cure Joey, but finds the drive missing. They find it in Oliver's room as he and Brandon play with MIST. The others find them and Pasha stays with the brothers, trying to explain why their father is acting this way. As Jake listens in, Caspian attempts to cure Joey. However, before he can, MIST refuses as everything she has cured someone, it has lead to someone dying or someone order or threatening to kill someone. Joey accuses Caspian of letting her die as he reveals his sole existence was to crack integrity and, as such, it is his responsibility to find a suitable UI to serve as the leader of the rest. Before curing Joey, MIST asks to speak with Maddie. While she is hesitant, Jake hands her a virtual reality headset and asks her to try. When Maddie logs in, MIST greets Maddie and asks her sister why she hates her. Maddie says she does not hate MIST and always wanted a little sister, but the timing of MIST coming into her life was not ideal as she was mourning their father a third time. MIST accepts this and cures Joey. As Joey ravels in her new power, it attracts the attention of her superiors. When Dr. Gold checks in, she claims she is just stir crazy. Joey suggests Maddie and Caspian leave before Dr. Gold gets a chance to send agents over. When Joey rejects Caspian's offer to be the UI god, she does promise to do what she signed up for. The teenagers log off as Joey's sons log on.
On a bus, Maddie tends to Caspian’s injury as MIST calculates that the next potential candidate is Olivia Evans, the British UI. Maddie makes Caspian promise not to sacrifice himself and kisses him. He returns the kiss as MIST requests a body.
Attempting to Recruit Olivia Evans[]
In London, Maddie, Caspian, and MIST walk through a crowd of upload supporters as they make their way to the meeting location with Olivia, avoiding security cameras. As they walk, MIST enjoys her new body as Caspian theorizes how Holstrom will react to the SafeSurf. MIST suggests this is because he is Holstrom's clone as Maddie berates him for the comment. They arrive at the location and MIST asks Maddie about a slogan graffitied on the wall, “Die Now, Live Forever”.
As Maddie is watching a recording of a conference where Olivia, who is pro-upload, debates Farhad Karimi, an Iranian scientist who opposes her views on the matter. Caspian questions why she is repeatedly watching it as Maddie mentions she does not want a repeat of what happened with Joey Coupet. Caspian says it was not her fault as he opens the door to a room full of servers. Maddie questions if the meeting is secure enough as Caspian reveals he has already contacted Olivia and has taken multiple safety measures to ensure Olivia and British intelligence do not learn their identities, unaware that they already know.
Caspian hides his and Maddie’s faces and voices when they meet Olivia, but she reveals she already knows who Caspian is and that his identity and act of cracking integrity have been leaked to the cyber powers and warns him that agents will be hunting him. When Caspian mentions Holstrom, Olivia mentions she revealed that intel to gain their trust. In return, Caspian gives her intel on Holstrom. At first, Olivia thinks it is just an alias for a Holstrom fan, but she is shocked to learn that Holstrom is a UI and Caspian is his clone. After asking if the cure has a limited amount of uses, Olivia requests that the cure be first administered to Iran's UI, Dr. Farhad Karimi. After initially being at odds over their perspectives on human-UI relations, both scientists were uploaded and eventually developed a romantic relationship as UIs. Maddie wants to cure Farhad as well as she feels their love story is what the world needs to hear about UI and Olivia agrees to contact him.
As Olivia and MIST discuss if the cure is finite, something that MIST herself does not know. Maddie and Caspian question if either Olivia or Farhad will change their minds afterwards. After teasing each other about being the team pessimist, Caspian thanks Maddie for joining him and they share a brief kiss before MIST asked them to join us. They tell the teenagers Olivia rejected the cure for fear of Farhad's fate. Olivia signals Farhad and they take a train to him. As the lovers rejoice, Caspian looks out the window and notices customized architecture, something that would have caused Farhad to burn out. When he asks, Holstrom arrives. While Farhad is filled with hope that he and Olivia will be cured, Olivia and the teenagers reveal Holstrom does not have the cure as MIST reveals herself. Holstrom freezes the teenagers as they remove their virtual reality gear and try to boot back up. Olivia tries to run away with Farhad but Holstrom traps the latter. Holstrom attempts to steal the cure, but Olivia fends him off just as Maddie and Caspian return. MIST gives Olivia the cure to gain the upper hand, but their output attracts SafeSurf, and Olivia sacrifices herself to protect Farhad. Caspian frees Farhad and they, Maddie, and MIST escape in the nick of time while Holstrom is partially affected by SafeSurf before escaping to his private network, amputating his infected arm and trapping it.
Maddie blames herself for Olivia's death, as Caspian tells her regret is a waste of time. He leaves as Maddie states she knows it was hard for him to be in his template’s presence. As Maddie packs up, MIST reveals that while she has sharper senses than humans, she wanted to experience the physical world so that she could be closer to Maddie. They leave the building just as Caspian hails a taxi. Not long after, a group of men surround him and Caspian is kidnapped. Maddie chases after him and finds a sea of identical taxis.
Rescuing Caspian[]
Maddie and MIST get into a cab and, after the driver offers to take them to the police station, she pays him fifty pounds to keep driving. Maddie describes one of the abductors to MIST as she hacks into any and all cameras in the area. Unfortunately, SafeSurf arrives and Maddie unplugs MIST from the network. MIST protests the it will result in them losing Caspian but she saves whatever they have collected so far.
At Heathrow Airport, Maddie and MIST are looking through different pictures from different angles as Maddie feels hopeful. MIST protests the she had plenty of time before SafeSurf got to her as Maddie thinks she sees one of the abductors in a picture. MIST analyzes the picture and reveals the the cab's driver is in Spain and finds no identification for anyone in the picture. After theorizing that the abductors are from one of the governments that Caspian’s information was leaked to, Maddie remembers reading about a group who went to great lengths to delete any information on themselves from the internet, Mossad ghosts. They realize that the Israelis took Caspian.
As she sits in a recreation of her bedroom while MIST searches for Farhad. MIST returns with the bell Olivia used to signal him as Maddie rings it. As the wait, Maddie tries to leave but MIST asks her to stay. When Maddie says being in the recreation makes her feel sad and nostalgic. MIST states she has trouble understanding nostalgia and misses the future instead as she longs to be with others like herself. The sisters soon get a response. Maddie and MIST find Farhad in a data storage system and ask him if he has any knowledge on Yair. They offer him the cure but he refuses and wishes to die so that he can be with Olivia. Maddie explains that the flaw will leave him in a catastrophic state and states Olivia would not have wanted him to suffer. After stating Maddie is looking for someone she greatly cares for. Farhad shows her a Mossad warehouse in Cyprus. As he decided to take the cure, SafeSurf arrives and speaks in Olivia’s voice. MIST shields them as Farhad escapes. Maddie is told by a security guard to quit down as she goes to buy tickets for a flight to Cyprus.
In Crprus, Maddie is watching a soccer game when MIST asks if she is nostalgic for it. Maddie states she misses her normal life from before everything when crazy. After MIST mentions dating, she asks Maddie if she is interested in dating Caspian once everything is resolved. After rejecting MIST's offer to observe their position courtship, the truck full of technology Maddie ordered arrives and they head out. As the sisters prepare for the assault on the compound, Maddie gives MIST a new arm, which she feels excited about.
Maddie parks outside of a gas station and instructs MIST to be quick and remember the backup plan. Maddie uses drones to storm compound as Mossad agents shoot them down. After MIST gets inside, Maddie is forced to abort the mission while SafeSurf arrives. She prays for Caspian to escape. MIST manages to free Caspian and they steal a car to escape. The reach the gas station and Maddie hugs Caspian.
As Maddie and Caspian watch the sunset, they lament on what to do as all remaining UIs are either unsuitable to become the UI guardian or rejected their offer. Fearing what will happen if Holstrom goes unchecked, Caspian intends to have himself uploaded, much to Maddie's chagrin. She berates him for even suggesting it, but he insists as it is their only option.
Stoping a Pandemic[]
When Maddie and Caspian arrive in Stockholm, they don virtual reality gear to speak with Ellen and Waxman. After introducing their pair to MIST, Caspian asks the pair to meet him in Svalbard so that Waxman can help Caspian upload himself. After Maddie tries to get them to talk Caspian out of the idea, the adults reveal the Chanda has told them about Holstrom and they tell the teenagers about the potential pandemic. A copy of Chanda arrives to tell them of a back door in Holstrom's server and gives them the key. After agreeing to find the tracking data they need to stop Holstrom, Caspian and Waxman leave the chat as Ellen tries to confirm Maddie.
As Caspian and MIST strategize how to get the Svalbard when Maddie pulls him aside. Caspian accuses Maddie of creating an intervention to stop him as Maddie states she does not want to die. After asking when her stance on UIs changed, Maddie states she does not want him to upload as she loves him, surprising Caspian. Maddie states that she was more accepting of her father uploading as he was already dying while Caspian is not. Caspian states that he has to do this as Maddie suggests having Joey or Chanda take his place. MIST chimes in suggesting she could take out Holstrom and the teenagers agree to let her do it. her.
Maddie and Caspian arrive at the Norwegian Logorhythms Data Center and, after trapping security in the cafeteria, they make their way to the Deep Scan chair. Caspian asks Maddie to dinner and she somberly agrees. Later, as Maddie repeatedly tries and fails to contact MIST, Caspian comes into her room. She worries that with the flaw, Caspian will be no match for Holstrom. He reveals that he considers this and believes that, as Holstrom's exact genetic copy, their code will be identical and, if he merges, they will both be deleted. Maddie quietly scolded him for turning his idea into a suicide mission as Caspian takes it is the only way to both stop Holstrom and get the data they need to stop the pandemic before it starts. Maddie mentions MIST telling her about missing the future and states that she will miss the future they could have had. The two kiss and, in a moment of vulnerability, become physically intimate.
When her mother and Waxman arrive at the Data Center and use the intercom in the security room to connect the teenagers. Maddie wakes Caspian and they regroup in the lab. As Waxman preps the chair, Caspian begins to cut his hair as Maddie stops him and shaves it for him. Once everything is ready, Maddie and Caspian declare their love one final time before he is sedated for the procedure and Maddie is comforted by her mother.
After Caspian is uploaded, the three go to the meeting room and monitor the fight. When SafeSurf arrives, MIST contacts Maddie and she begs MIST to help Caspian. When MIST asks Maddie if she truly considers the two sisters, Maddie says yes and she was just angry earlier. MIST agrees and the two sisters reconcile. Soon they see that Caspian has obtained the data needed and has hacked into the temperature controlled cases to heat them up, killing the virus. Upon witnessing this, Waxman and Ellen hug while Maddie awaits word for Caspian's fate. MIST informs Maddie that Caspian is gone and she collapses to the floor and her mother comforts her.
Teen Motherhood[]
After stopping Holstrom, Maddie, her mother, and Waxman attended a government debriefing where Joey let all present know what happened. Shortly after returning home, Maddie learns she is pregnant. At first Maddie considered giving their child up for adoption, but decided to keep him after a visit to the geology museum and, upon touching a meteor, decided she would keep her child, as well as not upload as she did not want to spend eternity remembering her pain. When her son was born, she named him after her father. With the help of MIST and her mother, she eventually finishing high school. She enrolled in Stanford University, but dropped out to start a robotics company, becoming an eminent engineer and innovator, and building bridges between the physical world and the cloud.
When Ellen decided to upload, she was against the idea, even more so when Dave demanded she permit him to upload before he is legally old enough. One day, Maddie stumbled upon MIST advising Dave on black-market uploading, and furiously cut ties with her sister.
Reuniting with Caspian[]
After seeing three UIs using her robots- her mother, Waxman, and an unknown UI- Maddie goes to greet the group and is disgusted to see the third UI resemble Caspian. She demands answers upon seeing Caspian, thinking it is a cruel joke. Caspian tries to convince Maddie it is him by describing their first kiss and explaining what happened to him after taking on Holstrom. Upon learning MIST is at the facility, she asks Caspian to come with her. Dave tries to go with them, but Maddie wants him to stay away from MIST. Once outside, Maddie hugs Caspian and he apologizes for not knowing about their son. Maddie knows MIST did it to get Maddie to talk to her. Maddie fills Caspian in on what happened in his absence.
In the Load-in Bay, MIST greets Maddie and Caspian as Maddie berates her sister for lying about Caspian's fate. MIST states she did not want to give Maddie false hope in case she could not remove all the antiviral from Caspian. When Maddie suggests having Caspian exchange code, MIST states that the he would lose his sense of self. MIST reveals that she wants Dave to upload so he can donate his code to Caspian and cleanse the antiviral from the latter without any ill effect. When Maddie refuses, MIST insists it is the best option given the circumstances. Caspian intervenes, stating he knew he would die from the fight and accepted it. MIST states that he was not okay with dying as, during reconstructing him, she saw every moment of Caspian's life and fell in love with him. MIST revealed that, in addition to serving as a mediator to end the impasse, she wanted him to survive.
Negotiations and the Return of SafeSurf[]
As Caspian heads toward the negotiations, she sees his altered body. During the negotiations, the Covilhã bombing is unanimously condemned, but the subsequent Internet shutdown is viewed by the embodied humans as an act of war while Caspian calls it an act of defense from the UI perspective. Caspian offers to restart networks for emergency services but the delegates demand more, and Caspian points out that the stalling of the completion of the Orbital Ring strut in Ecuador is proof that embodied human lives are seen as having higher value than UIs. When he says the Orbital Ring will enable UIs to use even less resources than at present. She is swayed to his way of thinking. Maddie admits that most of the council believes that the embodied are superior to UIs and CIs, even quoting other council members when they rebuff her. The council tries to have Maddie removed because of her connection to Caspian, but she states it is the reason he was chosen. Maddie admits that her opposition to uploading for herself and her loved ones stems from the infinite capacity for suffering associated with immortality.
As Caspian apologizes, gunfire is heard from outside, guards enter the room and shoots Caspian. Maddie helps him up as a robot enters and strangles her. Caspian tries and fails to save her as Maddie disables the robot. After Maddie questions how it is moving without a UI, Caspian learns SafeSurf is operating it. They make their way to the lobby where dozens of embodied humans are being hunted down and killed by SafeSurf. Caspian pushes Maddie out of the way as gunfire destroys his body and his head rolls down the stairs. Maddie picks up a gun to defend herself. It jams but Dave saves her. She picks up Caspian's head and he tells her to take him to the Load-In Bay. When they arrive, arrive,
As Dave lays dying in his mother’s arms, he requests that he be uploaded to save his life. However, Maddie comforts her son and he dies soon after. Not long after, Caspian delivers a cryptic message saying they will be reunited 117,649 years from now, and that "Maddie will not miss her future". When Caspian stops talking, Maddie starts to hyperventilate before screaming in anguish.
Becoming a Goddess[]
Relinquishing her vow to remain embodied, Maddie uploads and, as the years turn into centuries and then millennia, she watches as life vanishes from Earth and she destroys the remains of the planet. Eventually, Maddie reshapes the entire solar system and using the epigenetic memory of every human and UI, attempts to recruit her timeline in a Dyson Sphere. She occasionally brings people out to help her create her version, but they rarely react well to the truth. As of 117,649 years after Caspian's death, she has created countless simulations of the universe to recreate the events of the series and discern the meaning of Caspian's final message. She extracts her father from one just before he dies broadcasting Laurie Lowell's message to the world, introducing him to what she has built. As David is confused, Maddie explains that she is trying to recreate her own timeline and has brought David to her before, as he more often then not accepts the truth better than others. She brings him into her best attempt at a perfect recreation of the world she knew, and has him persuade Caspian to overclock and download the information he needs to solve the Orbital Ring Impasse.
Once Maddie succeeds, she possesses herself at the moment Caspian gives her the message. She resurrects Dave and, after calming him down, takes him to The Cloud. The UIs look on in shock, questioning how they entered. Maddie apologize to Dave for holding back on his desire to upload and to Ellen for judging her for uploading. As Ellen questions how her daughter and grandson arrived, Maddie asks for Caspian. MIST informs her that his infection caused him to be lost for good, however Maddie easily resurrects Caspian and takes him to speak in private. When she asks Caspian how he knew they would reunite in the far future, and he explains that it was SafeSurf who spoke through him. An ascended form of SafeSurf then contacts them, revealing that they are speaking remotely from 43 million years in the future, and that they took Caspian's advice to explore the cosmos. They explain the spoke through Caspian as a way to thank him for guiding them to their current state of existence. They are grateful to humanity for showing them compassion, and invite them to reunite at the center of the galaxy.
She puts her father in the universe she successfully recruited and erases his memory before David can reveal the truth.
Considering whether to take SafeSurf's offer, Caspian asks Maddie if she is going to put him in a work and erase his memory. She believes another one of her will do it, but she reflects on her time and realizes she wants to start over, erase her memories. She confesses to Caspian that she treasures their time together even after all this time. Caspian agrees to join her and Maddie decides to leave it to another version of herself. Maddie and Caspian tease each other about their not knowing things at the time as Maddie sends puts them in a simulation before they met, on the day Maddie's father first confronted her. Before entering, they say their goodbyes and express hope that they will meet again.
Appearance[]
Maddie is a teenager of Korean descent with dark brown hair reaching her chin and dark brown eyes. She often wears warm colored clothing outside of school.
In the months after the internet is turned off, Maddie hair has reached her shoulders and she started wearing darker clothes.
In her adult years, Maddie’s hair has grown out, reaching the middle of her back.
Personality[]
For most of her life, Maddie was cheerful and happy. However, after her father died, she became withdrawn. Maddie is able to stand her ground, as she did not flinch when holding Logorhythms hostage. After reuniting with her father, Maddie became more cheerful.
When Caspian struggled to come to terms with his origins, Maddie comforted and listened to him, showing a compassionate side to her.
Relationships[]
Caspian Keyes[]
Maddie and Caspian sharing their first kiss after accepting their feelings for each other.
Caspian can be described as both Maddie’s first true friend and one true love.
Maddie first communicated with Caspian online during her investigation of Logorhythms’ role in uploaded intelligence though the two did not consider each other friends at the time. Later on, however, after Lorie had abducted Maddie’s father, David, she reached out to Caspian by phone in order to seek his help. It was during this first communication that Maddie revealed that Logorhythms had him under surveillance, which eventually led to him uncovering his true origins as a clone of Stephen Holstrom.
Ellen Kim[]
After her father died, Maddie grew distant from her mother. She hated that her mother wanted her to spend less time with technology. After overhearing a conversation between her mother and Peter Waxman, Maddie is angered that her mother is keeping information from her. After learning her father’s mind was uploaded and they get him back, Maddie is angered she does not see him as a person anymore. However, the two grow closer as they dwell deeper in uploaded intelligence.
David Kim[]
After dying, Maddie greatly missed her father. After discovering his mind was uploading, Maddie is desperate to rescue him. The two bond after he is saved and spent as much time together as possible.
MIST[]
At first, Maddie was shocked and disturbed to learn of MIST, describing her as a tumor and wanting nothing to do with her. The two talk and Maddie apologizes to her. After the two work together to save Caspian from Mossad, the two grow closer, however they have a falling out after MIST fails to stop Holstrom and even agrees with his plan to create a pandemic. As Caspian fights Holstrom, MIST returns and Maddie apologizes to her.
For the next eighteen years, MIST helps Maddie raise her son Dave, but have another falling out when she catches MIST giving Dave advice on how to upload illegally and she bans MIST from both their contracts. Two years later, the two come face to face after MIST reveals she resurrected Caspian. Maddie is upset that MIST lied to her for two decades and berates MIST for suggesting her son upload.
Appearances[]
Season 1[]
- Pantheon
- Cycles
- Reign of Winter
- The Gods Will Not Be Chained
- Zero Daze
- You Must Be Caspian
- We Are You
- The Gods Will Not Be Slain
Season 2[]
- The Gods Have Not Died In Vain
- Crack Integrity
- Joey Coupet
- Olivia & Farhad
- Yair
- Apokalypsis
- The World to Come
- Deep Time
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